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Here’s the other thing: as much folks on Mastodon say they don’t like Bluesky, and they’ll never join it – the fact is that Bluesky’s higher network effect has resulted in a a lot of folks who used to thumb their noses at Bluesky joining Bluesky.

Hell, I post more often on Bluesky now – even though I don’t like it. And for those longer posts that won’t fit on Bluesky, I even provide a “READ MORE” link so people on Bluesky can read the rest of my post. (see attached image).

So now I’m on Bluesky, talking about the Fediverse, because people who used to be on Mastodon are like, “Hey Chris, I still want to hear from you, can you post here please?”

And I’m like, “Okay, it’s more work – but whatever.”

At some point, I want this Bridgyfed thing to be more common – and please, for the love of god, work with my Akkoma server – because I’d rather just bridge it.

Now some of you might think, “Hey, Meta will eventually enable ActivityPub entirely, right?” – which would finally kill this silly protocol war. But again, I’m skeptical that it will be done. And even if it is done, so what? Will Threads allow posts from there to be bridged to Bluesky?

sigh

Damn it, we’re going to need to go beyond microblogging and Twitter-like services to grow this network, and that means building the stuff that Meta and Bluesky won’t.