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   Sam Whited (sam@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 19:58:38 JST Sam Whited

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   • Solarbird :flag_cascadia:
   • Phil (ascentale)

   @moira @ascentale for my part, I take the exact opposite stance: I suspect cross posting does the opposite and creates serious harm for the people of the fediverse by creating "too big to fail" instances that can't be moderated appropriately, and providing them with a path to embrace-extend-extinguish us. I'm strongly against bridges to corporate social media in general and would caution us from defaulting to assuming they're helpful. That said, I also have no proof that they're doing this here.

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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 19:58:39 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     • Phil (ascentale)

     @ascentale A9: BlueSky is absolutely the current hotness, and I don't think we can or should fight that. BUT!

     What we _can_ do and I think _should_ do is establish links across BlueSky and the Federation, so people know they _can_ come here and _not_ lose contact with their friends.

     To that end, I wrote up a big post telling people in simple, basic steps how they can follow each other across the services via BridgyFed. It's here:

     https://solarbird.net/blog/2025/01/09/lets-all-go-to-the-exit/

     This has been well received in migration circles so far, and I've been picking up new followers both on BlueSky and Mastodon.

     It also gets BlueSky people reminders that the Federation is here, which will be _very helpful to us_ if and when BlueSky goes to shit.

     #BikeNite

     Matthew Fennell repeated this.
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     Phil (ascentale) (ascentale@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 19:58:40 JST Phil (ascentale)

     And a bonus question!

     Q9. There might be another small influx of people escaping another eccentric-billionaire-owned platform. Should we be reaching out to bring more people to the Fediverse? If so, what can we do?

     #BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

     Bob Jonkman and Evan Prodromou repeated this.