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I have a feeling some fedi people might jump down my throat about this but I just created an alt account on #Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/eliotlash.com
I have a few reasons for this. One, I am finding I have a lot of people I know on there I can reconnect with using https://www.sky-follower-bridge.dev/ to migrate my social graph from Twitter.
Two, establishing a presence there I can encourage people to enable #BridgyFed so I can interact with more bsky accounts from fedi.
@Eliot_L No throat-jumping from me but have you opted into Bridgy Fed from that account? I tried searching for @eliot-l.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy from here and I see nothing. That's expected if you haven't opted in, but I think there is some process, mysterious to me, that has to happen for the account to be known to the bridge.
@soaproot I haven't yet, I'm not sure if I'm going to either. I'm not planning on posting there much so I don't know if I gain much by enabling bridging that account *to* fedi. My fedi account is bridged to bsky though, and I am trying (although currently not succeeding much) to get the people I know on bsky to opt-in to bridging so I can interact with them from fedi. All I've posted so far is trying to explain to people on there what I'm doing and why. If this changes I might enable bridging.
@Eliot_L But what if you post something which is wrong? How am I supposed to repl..... oh wait..... we're supposed to try to AVOID being a Mastodon stereotype LOL
@soaproot FYI, I've decided to enable bridging of my #bluesky account: @eliotlash.com
I think my usage patterns with this account will differ from what I originally planned. I explained why here (this thread predates me bridging the acct): https://bsky.app/profile/eliotlash.com/post/3lbkgd4dgsk27
I am glad I made a real bsky account for a few reasons. I used a tool to crawl my birdsite follows and it found over 700 matches, most of which seem legit. Also, I'm getting "their side of the story" re: decentralization.
@Eliot_L @eliotlash.com Good reminder about how reply control is lacking on Fedi. I think everyone I've seen speak on it say we need at least some feature in that area (especially about whether a reply shows up on my own profile). But if that has proceeded to implementation I haven't noticed it.
@soaproot Also as part of my effort to learn more about #Bluesky, I've found a few resources I'm trying to digest.
This talk by Dan Abramov, an engineer I greatly respect, has been great so far but I only had time to watch the first half this morning: https://youtu.be/F1sJW6nTP6E
On the other side, this is also an incredible thread/blog post about #ATProto vs. #ActivityPub, decentralization, and how both Bluesky and the #Fediverse can improve (by one of the authors of AP): https://social.coop/@cwebber/113527462572885698