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   Jens Ohlig (johl@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 04:55:34 JST Jens Ohlig

   • Cory Doctorow

   I’m not a big fan of Bluesky. I don’t see the point and everything I want is already working on the Fediverse/Mastodon. But many people enjoy Bluesky. Some of those are really good and smart people. I agree with a lot of the points that @pluralistic makes in this piece.

   https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#everybody-samba

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     Daniel Molkentin (danimo@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 05:15:10 JST Daniel Molkentin

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @johl I see @pluralistic 's points, however why not both? Why not build something that works with BlueSky and can federate with both BlueSky (AT) and activitypub? Would allow for maximum flexibility.

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 05:15:14 JST Cory Doctorow

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     • Daniel Molkentin

     @danimo @johl Sounds great to me.

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 05:26:04 JST Cory Doctorow

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     • Daniel Molkentin
     • marcusb

     @marcusb @danimo @johl The benefit would be letting 20m Bluesky users easily leave the service if the management turns on them.

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     marcusb (marcusb@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 05:26:06 JST marcusb

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Daniel Molkentin

     @danimo @johl @pluralistic what would be the benefit of having multiple federation protocols? Different servers with different moderation and federation policies, I understand, but two protocols to support sounds like a lot of extra tech debt to maintain for no discernible benefit.

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:04:57 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     • Gray Miller

     @graymiller that service is great, but it requires that both the fediverse and the bluesky accounts opt in to the bridge. I've convinced exactly one of the climate folks who migrated to bluesky to bridge; the others are out of reach.

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     Gray Miller (graymiller@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:04:58 JST Gray Miller

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     • Bridgy Fed for Bluesky

     @pluralistic @marcusb @danimo @johl I keep waiting for one of you to say “you know, like @bsky.brid.gy does.” I realize that it’s an add-on, but from what I can tell it will allow us to “enjoy the BlueSky party.” Am I missing something?