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@tim actually, I just realized a potential problem that might prevent it. ActivityPub's privacy permissions are woefully inadequate. There is an account-level permission that says whether I have to approve people from following, and post-level permissions for who is allowed to see them. The post permissions are "only people who follow me" or "only the one person I mention."

My mirrored account would need to be set to "only people I allow can follow me" and the posts would need to be set to "only people who follow me can see them," but the way bridgyfed works is that bridgyfed itself has to follow me. Meaning everything I post does make it into Bluesky's network, and it's up to Bluesky whether they show that content to Bluesky users or not.

Even if there are only two users who are shown the content, the content can still be used for advertising profiling purposes on the users who do see them.