Unfortunately, Bridgy Fed is currently opt-in. For a Bluesky user to interact with a Mastodon user, both have to follow the Bridgy Fed account. There is ongoing discussion about Mastodon instance opt-in, and making Bluesky opt-out.
I highly encourage you to participate in this conversation as a Mastodon user.
Well you can nicely ask your instance admin to block Bridgy Fed
Bluesky’s ActivityPub support is also leagues better than Threads because of Bridgy Fed. At least a Bluesky user and a Mastodon user can follow each other and have a back-and-forth conversation.
Blame Apple I guess
As a matter of fact, Bluesky originally was supposed to become Twitter’s back end, but it was spun off when Elon took over. Jack Dorsey left and is now promoting nostr and X.
Bluesky is way more approachable than Mastodon. Most people don’t want to have to learn what an instance is.
It might seem really funny but TikTok is so far YouTube’s most formidable competitor so far.
He’s a flawed character with, unconventional ideas about Jeffery Epstein and the nature of his crimes. Nevertheless, his ideas about Free Software undoubtedly changed the landscape of computing for the better.
I just saw an article about Google adding pop-ups during navigation to Google Maps.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-maps-pop-up-ad-3458170/
To answer your question, it’s inertia. People need to be forced of Twitter if before they join Mastodon/Bluesky/Threads
God I can’t wait for that website to die already
I’m heavily interested in Bluesky, so I started !bluesky@lemmy.ml. Lemmy is overall pretty hostile towards it, and I’m not willing to go back to Reddit for active discussion about it.
Are there any potential repercussions for sticking a utility knife into the speaker grill?
Car-dependent suburban sprawl
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I wouldn’t really compare Bluesky to Mastodon. Ultimately, the Bluesky team still has control over what’s allowed on the app and what’s allowed on the network until third parties launch their own AppViews and relays.
It is not well known but there have been numerous scandals which put this trust into question. For example in 2012, a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation UK used his position to place his PR client on Wikipedia’s front page 17 times within a month. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales made extensive edits to the article about himself, removing mentions of co-founder Larry Sanger. In 2007, a prolific editor who claimed to be a graduate professor and was recruited by Wikipedia staff to the Arbitration Committee was revealed to be a 24-year-old college dropout. These are only a few examples, journalist Helen Buyniski has collected much more information about the the rot in Wikipedia.
I don’t really understand how decentralization would address the trust and legitimacy problems of Wikipedia. I do see value in adding community wikis to Lemmy, however.
Tankies are the reason why Lemmy exists in the first place.
Lemmy is probably the best fedidiverse project so far and it’s not even close
Check out Bazzite. It even has a GNOME variant.