ActivityPub

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OMG, @bsky.brid.gy works!

I saw a Bluesky post in my Mastodon feed, so I replied from Mastodon, and that reply showed up on Mastodon AND Bluesky!!!

The post is boring, so I’m not going to link it, but I will encourage my Mastodon friends to enable cross platform sharing by opting in here https://brid.gy/mastodon/start

Thanks @snarfed.org for building this tool. I have a few friends on Bsky that I miss following, hopefully I can get them to opt-in.

Ok, so Ryan Barret (@snarfed), who built Bridgy, has also created Bridgy Fed, a bi-directional bridge between the Fediverse (Mastodon accounts and other instances following the ActivityPub protocol) and BlueSky (sites running BlueSky’s AT Protocol).

Bridgy Fed connects web sites, the fediverse, and Bluesky.  You can use it to make your profile on one visible in another, follow people, see their posts, and reply and like and repost them. Interactions work in both directions as much as possible

This means you can have things you post to a BlueSky account made visible to the Fediverse and things you post to the Fediverse available to BlueSky users. Importantly, not just viewable but reply-to-able.

So what’s a person to do?

I’ve got a Bluesky account already (@jeckman.bsky.social) and multiple instances of WordPress sites supporting ActivityPub (@jeckman@johneckman.com and @john). I’m already posting to my Bluesky account when I update either WordPress site and following people from the Fediverse from @jeckman@johneckman.com using the Friends plugin.

If you’re on Bluesky but not active in the fediverse, you can bridge that Bluesky account to the Fediverse by following @ap.brid.gy on BlueSky.

If you’re active on the Fediverse (on a Mastodon instance for example), you can bridge that to Bluesky by following @bsky.brid.gy from your Fediverse account.