Jack Dorsey referred to Twitter, the privately owned company that blocked links to competing social media platforms like Mastodon, as "freedom technology". What a clown.

He also deleted his account on Bluesky announced he's no longer on Bluesky's board of directors. Jack's involvement was one of the reasons I was never excited about #Bluesky, TBH.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/jack-dorsey-says-hes-no-longer-on-the-bluesky-board/?guccounter=butts #JackDorsey

Kurzer Nachschlag zur „Antwort auf meine Threads-Frage“

Heute wurde ich dank @crossgolf_rebel@moppels.bar auf einen Artikel bei TechCrunch aufmerksam:
Why Meta is looking to the fediverse as the future for social media (arch)

Was ich da lesen musste – insbesondere auch „zwischen den Zeilen“ – hat mich in meiner Entscheidung […]

#Bluesky #Fediverse #Meta #Threads

https://pepecyb.hu/b/1QM

Det här med Bridgy blev lite rörigare än jag tänkte, men om du ser det här inlägget på Bluesky kan du väl svara på det så jag ser om ditt svar syns "här" (läs: på Friendica). ;)

#bridgy #friendica #bluesky #BlueskyBridge #bridgyfed

This video is SO good! Anyone who is interested in Fediverse nuances and the issues we've been debating for months now, should definitely watch this video! 4/?

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #IceShrimp #FireFish #Misskey #Sharkey #Lemmy #Kbin #Mbin #NodeBB #GoToSocial #Meta #Threads #Nostr #BlueSky #BridgyFed #Momostr #Bridge #Flipboard

So, at the 29 minute mark, Ryan talks about how Mastodon's search discoverability feature is currently opt-in and there's only 5-6% of people currently opting-in. That's a wild statistic!😬 3/?

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #IceShrimp #FireFish #Misskey #Sharkey #Lemmy #Kbin #Mbin #NodeBB #GoToSocial #Meta #Threads #Nostr #BlueSky #BridgyFed #Momostr #Bridge #Flipboard

Ryan made a pretty good point around the 16 minute mark about how Threads wasn't told to make their federation "opt-in" from the Fediverse side and that people feel differently about bridges for some reason.

Even though, they're the same thing, in most ways. 2/?

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #IceShrimp #FireFish #Misskey #Sharkey #Lemmy #Kbin #Mbin #NodeBB #GoToSocial #Meta #Threads #Nostr #BlueSky #BridgyFed #Momostr #Bridge #Flipboard

Finally sitting down to watch/listen to the podcast with Mike Mccue, CEO of Flipboard, and Ryan Barrett, creator of BridgyFed.

This should be good!😁

So cool to see the leaders in this space share info and help each other make this the best social media project it could be! 1/?

Link: https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=TtVtQOHl9DY

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #IceShrimp #FireFish #Misskey #Sharkey #Lemmy #Kbin #Mbin #NodeBB #GoToSocial #Meta #Threads #Nostr #BlueSky #BridgyFed #Momostr #Bridge #Flipboard

Building Bridges to the Fediverse, with Ryan Barrett

The beauty of an open system is that anyone can build on top of it and try to make it a better place. In the fediverse, software engineer Ryan Barrett is one such developer.

^{Flipboard | Invidious}

Dear Fedi admins:

If you aren't aware, the BlueSky-Fediverse bridge known as BridgyFed is live now.

Back when it was announced, there was a small window of time when it was added to the Oliphant's Tier 0 blocklist.

If you are using this blocklist and WANT to be federated with BlueSky, please double check to make sure you don't have the version of the list that it appears on. You may have blocked the bridge and not even know it.

The domain you want to look for is: brid.gy

Please boost for reach, so your admin knows of this possible issue. Thanks. 🙏

#Fedi #Fediverse #MastoAdmin #ActivityPub #BlueSky #BridgyFed #FediAdmin #Mastodon #BlueSkyBridge

So...now that BridgyFed is live, how about if those who don't want an open platform (like we currently have) block the bot. Then after a reasonable enough time (a month?) We make it opt-out like the rest of the platform?

I'm still SO confused by the fact that a lot of you want a closed platform, while being on an open one, yet here we are.

What say you? Can we ACTUALLY get back to the goal of this platform? to be open and allow those on other platforms to follow and interact with us freely? Or are we still wanting our "open walled garden" concept?

ActivityPub is built on being an open platform for engagement across social networks. However, what we have here with BridgyFed, does not build on that goal, because you all asked it not to.😔

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #BlueSky #BridgyFed #Momostr #Bridge #BlueSkyBridge

A reminder to my fellow Bluesky followers, please follow: https://bsky.app/profile/rolle.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy

#BridgyFed #Bluesky

Sunday MIGHT be blog day...🤔

I haven't done that in A LONG TIME. However, there's been LOTS happening and I'm very excited for the future of the platform, right now.

I am obviously still a little cynical when it comes to corporations and their intentions with Fedi, though.

If I have time, (and if I feel good enough. Anxiety is a bitch) I'll do a writing session and detail my thoughts, reasonings, and experiences with this social movement so far.

I'll also be detailing the nuances of each cross-platform integration I have firsthand experience with.

Let me know if this is a type of blog post would be interesting or intriguing to you and it might help me with motivation to pull it off. I don't want to "yell into the void". Especially with something I have so much passion for, and will take some time to complete.

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #IceShrimp #FireFish #Misskey #Sharkey #Lemmy #Kbin #Mbin #NodeBB #GoToSocial #Meta #Threads #Nostr #BlueSky #BridgyFed #Momostr #Bridge #Flipboard #WordPress #Blog #Blogging

If you are on a tightly locked down Akkoma instance, like mine, and you’d like to follow the BlueSky bridge but struggle to do so, try logging in to your account via Phanpy instead. That’ll work.

#Akkoma #Fediverse #BlueSky #Bridge #bsky.brid.gy

It's such an exciting time for social media.

Fediverse is going near-mainstream due to wide adoption.

Bluesky now "unofficially" federates with the fantastic work of Ryan Barrett's BridgyFed!

Threads has one-way federation and claims to plan to fully federate soon enough.

Flipboard is actively working on Federation, some parts already working!

Nostr is federated using the Momostr Pink bridge which also bridges Threads.

The future of interconnected social media is now. Exciting times, we are in!😁

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #IceShrimp #FireFish #Misskey #Sharkey #Lemmy #Kbin #Mbin #NodeBB #GoToSocial #Meta #Threads #Nostr #BlueSky #BridgyFed #Momostr #Bridge #Flipboard

Have you turned on Bridgy Fed for BlueSky-Mastodon bridge yet?

(that is a poll, if you're seeing this on Bluesky, just reply the question in comments)

#bluesky #mastodon #bridgyfed #askmastodon #askfediverse #activitypub #atprotocol #fediverse #nostr

• Yes (26%, 6 votes)
• No (26%, 6 votes)
• I have no idea what Bridgy Fed is. (47%, 11 votes)

Some #followfriday #infosec / #cybersecurity recommendations…

- @screaminggoat : 🚨 “Not Simon” 😉 has moved. Re-follow, or start following!

- @wfh

- This month, me and a lot of other #indieweb bloggers are posting daily content on our respective sites for #weblogpomo2024. Follow this hashtag or follow @Pomo to see lots of cool stuff!

- @snarfed.org has gone live with the #bluesky bridge. If for whatever reason you wanted to follow my #bsky account you could do so here @shellsharks.com

Mycket spännande! Du kan nu som mastodon-användare ”opt-in” till att snacka med folk på Bluesky, fast du gör det från samma mastodon-konto.

För att göra detta, följer du bara @bsky.brid.gy så kan folk på Bluesky prata med dig, och du med dem. Ditt användarnamn på Bluesky blir @user.domain.ap.brid.gy .

Fortfarande lite barnsjukdomar och allt kommer inte igång på stuberten, men väldigt roligt med en brygga för de som vill!

#bridgyfed #bluesky

Slowly, but surely my Mastodon posts (this one included) are showing up on Bluesky. Bridgy.fed kicks in. Thanks to @snarfed.org for all the hard work.

#BridgyFed #BlueSkyBridge #Bluesky

#Bluesky bridging is finally happening! Only opt-in, though, so make sure to follow @bsky.brid.gy if you want your posts to show up there.

@snarfed.org, any chance you'd consider implementing FEP-fffd (https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/fffd/fep-fffd.md) on brid.gy? This was one of the primary use cases for it.

fep/fep/fffd/fep-fffd.md at main

fep - Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

^Codeberg.org

Hello Bluesky, this is me posting from Mastodon. 👋 Bridgy.fed is finally live.

#Fediverse #BridgyFed #Bluesky #ActivityPub

We can now connect to #BlueSky accounts from here, but both sides need to enable it.

We're supposed to be opt-out folks, but too many "safety" advocates are stopping the #SocialWeb from ever becoming ubiquitous. Imagine being so scared of "bad" speech that you demand users and server admins add each other's domain to their settings before they could communicate or even browse to those sites. We'd all still be on AOL.

Thank you @snarfed.org.

https://fed.brid.gy/docs

Bluesky?!!

Ah-ha! Now I'm seeing something! Both ways? Hmm...

#Bluesky #Federated #Mastodon #Fediverse

Wow, that was a fast confirmation!

#Fedi #Bluesky #Mastodon

Follow this account if you want to bridge your Fediverse account to Bluesky!

#Fedi #Bluesky #Connection

@bsky.brid.gy

In the latest episode of #DotSocial I interview @snarfed.org, a passionate bridge builder with a focus on connecting people across the open web and the #fediverse. His latest work, #BridgyFed, connects #ActivityPub and #ATProtocol resulting in excitement, critique and *lots* of discussion.

Ryan and I talk about the parallel communities on #Mastodon and #Bluesky, their shared desire to create an open social web and the pros and cons of their underlying protocols, #ActivityPub and #ATProtocol. Can or should these be bridged? If so, how? As whole new communities continue to join the fediverse, how should the user experience evolve?

Listen to this excellent discussion on our @PeerTube instance or wherever you get your #podcasts.

https://flipboard.video/w/2Jj46hJaUQQG5TuiBYi9TR

Building Bridges to the Fediverse, with Ryan Barrett

The beauty of an open system is that anyone can build on top of it and try to make it a better place. In the fediverse, software engineer Ryan Barrett is one such developer. Ryan’s been building so...

^{Flipboard PeerTube}

You must be kidding me, Jason.

Too early to celebrate, my dude

#mastodon #bluesky #threads #twitter #x #elon #musk #elonmusk #googleplus #google #graveyard #socialmedia #technology #tech

I have no idea how to react to stuff like this. I personally had an expirience when it was proved that Mastodon is trans-friendly, isn't it?

Well, no matter how much will it make you mad (it will make you mad), looks like according to this Bluesky post below, Mastodon isn't trans-friendly.

(While the author doesn't says it directly, they are saying that Mastodon's community is racist to black transgender people.....have no words how double-stupid that is)

Link: https://bsky.app/profile/mommy.estrogenize.me/post/3kqyy7djabi24

#bluesky #mastodon #fediverse #twitter #x #transphobia #trans #transgender #black #blacklivesmatter #racism

"Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem. AWS was becoming too costly, so #Bluesky moved over to dedicated data centers and bare-metal machines."

That's not something you read every day.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)

Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.

^{Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)}