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ALERT for Bluesky Bridge Users 🚨 🦋

If you are using a Bluesky bridge on Mastodon, DO NOT TAG Mastodon accounts in your posts without prior informed consent from this person.

This could end up showing a preview of this person's profile picture and bio on Bluesky without their consent.

Additionally, be careful about how the upcoming Quote Post feature could behave with Bluesky bridges.

Some of us don't want our information shared with commercial platforms like Bluesky, and have not consented to this bridge.

This practice can even endanger some Fediverse users.

If you have chosen to share your
own data with commercial platforms, make sure you leave the same choice to others.

This is important.

#Privacy #Mastodon #Bluesky #BlueskyBridge #Fediverse #Consent

#fediverse #mastodon #privacy #consent #bluesky #blueskybridge

Avoid posting forum messages to Bluesky?
When you post to a Freindica forum, including lemmy communities, using the ! like !Friendica Support by default it only goes to the group, and any other you tag with ! or @ regardless of the privacy settings for the post. I have the Bluesky add-on active and I recently learned that all of those messages are showing on #Bluesky anyway. I can go into the privacy options and deselect the button to "Post to Bluesky" but I often forget to do so on my desktop. My preferred mobile cliient #AndStatus doesn't even have the option to do so. Am I missing something? Is there some other setting I can toggle to ensure I don't post to some other network inadvertently, while still having it post all my PUBLIC posts their? @AndStatus@Mastodon
#AndStatus #bluesky @AndStatus@Mastodon !Friendica Support

News: TechCrunch | Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps … yet

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/government-censorship-comes-to-bluesky-but-not-its-third-party-apps-yet/

"Simply put, if you’re on the official Bluesky app and #Bluesky (the company) agrees to censor something in your region, there’s no way to opt out of this to see the hidden posts or accounts."

The article goes on to tell users how to get around the censorship by using a third party app, but the fact remains that the censored accounts will not be visible to most users.


Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps ... yet | TechCrunch

Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there's currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured.Earlier this
Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
#bluesky

People ask: "Why the preoccupation with #Bluesky? Lots of good folks are going there and love it."

@Daojoan does a great job of providing the long answer in this brilliant piece: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/big-tech-wants-you-trapped-the-open-web-sets-you-free-2/

But the short answer is that, by funneling users onto another unsafe centralized corporate platform, #Bluesky inhibits the construction of truly defensible public social media.

So now, when something happens over on Bluesky, the Fedi will not be ready to absorb a rapid mass migration.

more...


Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free

Big Tech designed their platforms to keep you trapped. YouTube, X, Instagram, and TikTok aren't neutral spaces. They're businesses built on capturing your attention and data.
Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)
#bluesky @JA Westenberg

!Friendica Support is there a reason i can't set notifications for new post of friends on #Bluesky (via the plug-in)

like I can for friends that are using #ActivityPub?

#activitypub #bluesky !Friendica Support

WHAT?! 😮

#Threads just took a page out of #Bluesky’s book and implemented a custom feeds feature.

So basically, Threads now has Bluesky’s major selling point—which is choose-your-own-algorithm.

Man, I wish Threads would open source this feature so other #ActivityPub-enabled software could take advantage of this. But maybe someone else coughMastodoncough could make this happen.

More improvements to Threads feeds to help you connect with others over your interests: you can now share your custom feeds for other people to add to their home screen. Feeds you share will be public and shown in a new "feeds" tab on your profile. This was a top request when custom feeds launched, so we've made sure creating and sharing feeds takes just a few steps and is easy for anyone.
#activitypub #bluesky #threads

Are there any #OpenSource services that would allow me to cross-post on the #Fediverse and on #Bluesky without creating a dummy account (as #Bridgy does)?

Ideally, I’m thinking about a client that supports both the #MastodonAPI and the #BlueskyAPI.

#Mastodon #API

#fediverse #mastodon #opensource #API #mastodonapi #bluesky #Bridgy #BlueskyAPI

Anyone used #Friendica? My wife @redbunhead.bsky.social discovered it when I told her about #Pixelfed.

I left #Facebook ~8yr ago & then #twitter for #mastodon. She’s on #FB & #Instagram & is exploring #BlueSky. We both just joined #Substack.

We’re looking for good decentralized social networks that aren’t owned by billionaires. I miss the FB feel sometimes, so any info on Friendica is appreciated.

Wife would also appreciate tips on choosing a Pixelfed server.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica


free software for distributed social networks

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#twitter #friendica #pixelfed #facebook #mastodon #Instagram #substack #bluesky #fb

Let's try it again: This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more. That's #Sharkey, #Pixefeld (hence the pic), #Mbin, #Lemmy, #Friendica, #Hometown, #Akkoma... How far can it go?

Please share it, wherever you see it! #SocialMedia

@fediverse

The rocket-emoji
#friendica #fediverse #mastodon #socialmedia #lemmy #hometown #akkoma #bluesky #sharkey #pixefeld #mbin @Fediverse

Content Classification Service

IFTAS CCS is an opt-in, privacy-preserving webhook service that provides actionable alerts on content. Our initial service provides CSAM hash and match functionality, and IFTAS handles the required…
IFTAS
#fediverse #activitypub #bluesky #BetterSocialMedia #TogetherStronger

All the new users fleeing from one corporate-owned #socialMedia platform (#twitter) to another corporate-owned platform (#bluesky) are SOOO CLOSE TO GETTING IT... 😩
#twitter #socialmedia #bluesky

Ruszyła kolejna fala migracji z X/Twittera, więc dziś w #OkoPress przyglądam się alternatywom:
https://oko.press/ucieczka-z-twittera-przyszlosc-mediow-spolecznosciowych

Co ciekawe, wszystkie – Fediverse, Bluesky, Threads – przynajmniej w jakimś stopniu twierdzą, że są zdecentralizowane. Mówię więc "sprawdzam", razem z @cwebber , @blaine i @ben .

Nie będzie dla nikogo zaskoczeniem, że #Bluesky i Threads mocno naciągają to "zdecentralizowanie." Ale sam fakt, że wszystkie realne alternatywy dla Twittera promują się decentralizacją jest znaczący!

Ucieczka z Twittera. Przyszłość mediów społecznościowych jest zdecentralizowana

Ruszyła ogromna fala migracji osób korzystających z portalu X, dawniej znanego jako Twitter z powodu związku Elona Muska z Trumpem i zmianą regulaminu. Miliony kont przeniosły się do innych sieci społecznościowych: Bluesky, Fediverse czy Threads.
Michał rysiek Woźniak (OKO.press)
#bluesky #OKOpress @blaine @Ben Werdmuller @cwebber

@noam @support @Friendica Support

Fediverse users: Follow @bsky.brid.gy to allow #Bluesky users to find and follow you.

Bluesky users: Follow @ap.brid.gy to allow #Fediverse users to find and follow you.

#BlueSky #Friendica

#friendica #fediverse #bluesky @Friendica Support

@Friendica Support @Libranet Support
Can I follow friends on #BlueSky from #Friendica (and specifically from Libranet)? I haven't managed so far. I tried searching for their profile URL with /rss at the end, but nothing is found. I've seen some conversations about this, but couldn't find a way to make it work.

Thanks!

#friendica #bluesky @Friendica Support @Libranet Support

#fediverse #mastodon #fedi #bluesky #nostr

@helpers Has anyone ever successfully added a rss feed from a bluesky account to their friendica account? What does it look like? I tried to do with a friendica account, but it broke all the timelines. I can't read any posts from anyone I follow now on friendica. #Friendica#Bluesky#NewHere#Friendica#Bluesky#NewHere
#friendica #newhere #bluesky @Friendica Support

Just login and see for yourself how bad the content is. This is Instagram only with more words.

This is yet another social network for content and not for discussion.

Mark Zuckerberg ist unable to re invent Social Media!

But it is able to kill #Twitter and #bluesky ...

#twitter #bluesky

Sneak peek at the overhauled Agora client that will support logging in with either your #Mastodon, #Nostr, or #BlueSky account and seeing posts from the other two protocols!

Super awesome to see what’s possible thanks to amazing bridges by @alex and @snarfed.org and @cheeaun for the awesome Phanpy base to build off of

#mastodon #bluesky #nostr @Alex Gleason @Ryan Barrett @cheeaun

Constantly hearing ”got tired of Mastodon’s technicalities, Bluesky is simple and amazing”.

How we could design Mastodon to be more simple and have less technical-feel to it? UI is one thing, but that will not cut it all. I have probably said this before, but I am starting to believe no matter what we do we can’t ”win”. The narrative might need to change. 🤷‍♂️

#SocialMedia #Bluesky #Mastodon

#mastodon #socialmedia #bluesky

If you like to torture youself, check out what people are babbling on Bluesky in real time about Mastodon: https://firesky.tv/?filter=mastodon

#Firesky #Bluesky #API #Mastodon #Gossip


Firesky

Watch every Bluesky post in real-time – filter the firehose
firesky.tv
#mastodon #API #bluesky #firesky #gossip

A simple #ActivityPub <-> #Bluesky interop MVP I don’t see mentioned a lot is the ability to fully oEmbed an apub/atproto post on its opposite platform. This would allow for a kind of quote-posting across networks.

If that could somehow be combined with a WebMention to inform me that my apub post has been shared elsewhere and vice versa, we’d have significantly greater cross-border connectivity than the status quo.

A Bluesky dev has responded with interest:

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1716#discussioncomment-7261438


Interoperability with Mastodon/ActivityPub · bluesky-social/atproto · Discussion #1716

What are the current plans from BlueSky (the company) for interoperability with Mastodon/ActivityPub? We currently have two emerging alternatives to X that deserve to be taken seriously: the fedive...
GitHub
#activitypub #bluesky

#Friendica und #bluesky, hallo @Michael Vogel du schriebst was von bluesky in friendica, ich finde es nur nicht mehr.

Gesehen habe ich, dass ich bluesky einbinden könnte.

Wenn ich den Feed einbette ist er mit in meiner timeline, wie die Nachrichten von allen anderen Instanzen auch?

So wie ich es verstehe, könnte ich von friendica aus, zu bluesky posten, aber das wären dann alle Beiträge?

Danke vorab, für eine Antwort, sonnige Grüße in den Norden 😀

#friendica #bluesky @Michael 🇺🇦

I have 1000 invites for Mastodon. Who's interested? #Bluesky
#bluesky

Hey, Fedi peeps!

I'm working on an opinion piece on what the #Fediverse, #BlueSky, and #Nostr can all learn from each other, in terms of features and capabilities.

What would you say is a strength of the Fediverse? What would you say is a weakness / could be better? 🤔

#fediverse #bluesky #nostr

@Jonathan Lamothe There's already a connector addon for #Bluesky contributed by @Michael Vogel that will be released this September.
#bluesky @Michael 🇺🇦 @Jonathan Lamothe

This cartoon has prophetic characteristics:

The "left" / "liberal " users of #Twitter will fatten #Mastodon user numbers, whereas the the burning bird on the right might yet rise again like the #Phoenix out of the #Birdsite ashes as #Twitter2.0 (aka #Bluesky.)

Thus it is envisaged by #Elmo and his #PayPal, not-my-friend, @ Jack after #Twitters final demise.

Purefied by fire, only right-wing users and easily gullible #ElmoFanboys will remain on #Bluesky.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28Programmiersprache%29

Programmiersprache für statistisches Rechnen

Autoren der Wikimedia-Projekte (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#twitter #PayPal #mastodon #elmo #Birdsite #bluesky #phoenix #twitter2 #twitters #elmofanboys

Content warning: meta, Bluesky

#bluesky

O #Bluesky trancou a porteira e não vai mais deixar ninguém se cadastrar enquanto resolvem os problemas de desempenho devido ao êxodo de refugiados do #Twitter.

Agora mesmo tendo #convite não vai ser possível criar uma nova conta.

🔗 https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3jzihryv25y2m

Bluesky

bsky.app
#twitter #bluesky #convite

From a preliminary ~12h sample of #bluesky / #atprotocol , a small number of accounts receive most interactions. This is an obvious byproduct of the way the default algorithmic feed prioritizes posts.

- 5% of accounts received 72% of likes, 1% of accounts received 41%
- The top 5% of accounts make 48% of posts
- 37% of accounts receive no interaction
- The median account received 1 like.

Just a quick, incomplete look, but ya looks like an engagement farm
Line graph showing the cumulative sum of likes on the y axis vs. accounts on the x axis. Vertical lines indicate different quantiles of likes per account (0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0.9, 0.95, and 0.99) The line hovers near zero for the first two-thirds of the graph, but starts to increase around the 0.75 quantile. at 0.9 it is at ~100,000, and then the line rises sharply to its maximum at ~450000 through the 0.95 and 0.99 quantiles. If the network was "flat" where everyone received the same amount of interaction, the line would be a straight, diagonal line. The amount of convexity in the line indicates the degree to which the network's interactions are concentrated on the top accounts.
#bluesky #atprotocol

#Bluesky / #ATProtocol is an extremely funny protocol that is explicitly designed to ensure that there are still powerful entities that own your attention. Sure! you can host your own personal data store, but everyone else will be getting your posts through a Big Graph Service that necessarily crawl all posts on the network, so it's actually mostly irrelevant.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture
Network diagram showing data flow in the bluesky network. Individual users interact with personal data stores (PDS). Those PDS are crawled by Big Graph Services (BGS). BGS then feeds posts to AppViews and other feed generation services. Those feed generation services feed other posts back to your personal data store.

Federation Architecture Overview

Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment for federation. In advance, we want to share some technical details about our design decisions.
blueskyweb.xyz
#bluesky #atprotocol

lmao taking a look at #ATProtocol / #Bluesky's implementation of #DID, and I think they missed the "decentralized" part in their "placeholder" DID method.

Your domain's DNS entries just contain a (truncated) hash that then has to be resolved at plc.directory

recall that the DID method (plc) is part of the DID, so a different method (eg. web) is a different DID. to switch, you'd need to set an alsoKnownAs entry. plc only supports AT handles for alsoKnownAs.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/did-method-plc#did-resolution
DID Resolution PLC DIDs are resolved to a DID document (JSON) by making simple HTTP GET request to the PLC server. The resolution endpoint is: https://plc.directory/:did The PLC-specific state data (based on the most recent operation) can be fetched as a JSON object at: https://plc.directory/:did/data

GitHub - bluesky-social/did-method-plc: A cryptographic, strongly-consistent, and recoverable DID method

A cryptographic, strongly-consistent, and recoverable DID method - GitHub - bluesky-social/did-method-plc: A cryptographic, strongly-consistent, and recoverable DID method
GitHub
#bluesky #atprotocol #did

checked #bluesky and the mood is almost the same as here, half of the people have no other topic than their sexuality and comments about different others.... 🤷
#bluesky

Pardon the expression, but #Bluesky was all atwitter over @mmasnick’s
ingenious new game designed to give people a lived experience at moderating content and behavior. He could win the peace prize for this!

#moderatorMayhem
https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/
slashdottir ✅, content moderation is hard and thankless check out this new game on content moderation by @mmasnick https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/, May 11, 08:25 PM, slashdottir@mastodon.online, mmasnick boosted

Moderator Mayhem: A Content Moderation Game

Can you succeed at the fast-paced challenge of content moderation?
moderatormayhem.engine.is
#bluesky #moderatormayhem @Mike Masnick ✅

I appreciate that this is going to upset some people, and I thought I was too shy to say it, but I prefer #BlueSky over #Mastodon:

Here's why:

https://neilzone.co.uk/bluesky_over_mastodon.html
#mastodon #bluesky

I've been thinking about this #bluesky post, and this seems backwards to me. In my view, protocols should be extracted from functioning apps, not created in a vacuum. The core feedback loop for development should involve actual users and actual use. Without that, it's just building sky castles in hopes that all your guesses turn out right.
#bluesky

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