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in reply to Nate

If BlueSky is so good, why do their users spend so much time trying to make Mastodon users accept them via Bridgey? It's weird.
in reply to sabreW4K3

The way I see it is that AT/BlueSky has a lot of potential as a finished ecosystem, but it's far from completed and even if it's completed well it won't be as decentralized as the other big protocols. It's still got 25x the people as something like ActivityPub or Nostr though, so I'm coming at this from the perspective that I don't necessarily want to make BlueSky my home base of decentralized protocols, but interconnectivity still would let me communicate with anybody on the bigger platforms.

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in reply to Nate

Another protocol is infact not good. Standardization can often be a good thing actually. Imagine if every company sold things made with their own custom screw head.
in reply to Themadbeagle

Imagine if every company had a different DVI version that looks almost the same but is incompatible with all of the others

Nima doesn't like this.

in reply to Themadbeagle

While you're right, screws are probably a bad example. There are dozens of different screw heads. Hex, torq, phillips, on and on.
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in reply to Nate

For biggest protocol it's also important to consider the number of instances. In that regard Activitypub is far ahead of everything else (Bluesky only consists of a single instance).
in reply to Nate

softwares


\facepalm

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in reply to Nate

I mean, sure. In theory. But I can't really interact with people between platforms very well. If someone and I are both bridged, and I boost something on mastodon, they're not gonna see it

I'm not actually even sure if I can reply to their bridged account from my mastodon account and have their bluesky account see my reply.

Its a jank and hacky workaround for the fact that bluesky wasn't designed for interoperability with the Fediverse. I love that accounts can be bridged! But like, that's not the same as literally any other inter-platform interaction within the Fediverse. Its a tack on half-solution.

I'm happy we have it, but it's not fair to act like it's the same thing, and I can understand why people would find it frustrating.

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