Bridgy Fed, which is working to connect the social network Bluesky with the wider fediverse (i.e., the open social web), which includes sites like Mastodon and others, will be the first app incubated within a new nonprofit called A New Social. The organization, announced Tuesday, aims to bring together developers, researchers, startups, and industry leaders building infrastructure for the open social web, including those adopting protocols like Bluesky’s AT Protocol and ActivityPub, which powers Mastodon, Meta’s Threads, and the rest of the fediverse.
Fun fact: If you use software that support following people like MBin, you can bridge your account too and follow BlueSky folk
You say that like I don’t want to federate with twitter, and then choose who I block.
Because let’s face it, 95% of the profiles ARE on twitter. Not everybody who uses social media gives one removed about open source. I’d say most on mastodon DO, but I’d say the vast majority on bluesky DON’T.
This will help you understand why bluesky has 24.5 active million users, and mastodon has 1.5 million active users.
Twitters new reputation is a rightwing hellhole. THAT’S why they’re bleeding users. Bluesky is exactly like twitter in functionality, but left wing leaning.
Mastodon isn’t political by nature, but functions very differently. The people who care about open source, and decentralized, and all these other things, those people signed up for mastodon. Everybody else who didn’t care, didn’t.
Now to be fair, mastodon has 10 million registered users, but only 1.5 active users. Compare that to blueskys 25 million users, with 24.5 active users.
Given mastodon’s older age compared to bluesky, it suggests to me that at some point in the past, people signed up for mastodon as an alternative to twitter…and by large have left the platform.
My speculation is that it probably happened when must bought twitter 2 years ago. Before bluesky became popular. Then they left when they realized mastodon works differently than twitter.
Personally I wouldn’t enjoy sorting through hundreds of twitter scam bots every day just for the sake of choice.
Then you can choose to block twitter. But don’t say that because YOU want to block twitter that EVERYONE should.
I’ve yet to meet a single person that enjoys twitter bots, but hey maybe the people running them would love to interact with the fediverse!