btw for everyone joining bsky today but worried about trying to find their friends from back on twitter: ✨ sky follower bridge ✨ is an extension on chrome and firefox that lets you sort through your following on twitter to see if any of them have associated bsky accounts
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1. you have to log in to the extension with your bsky credentials but it is safe to use
2. it works by logging in to your twitter account and going to your list of people you're following, then running the extension, which slowly searches the list for people with associated bsky accs
2. it's saying "No similar users found." for everyone, even people I've already found manually
You can generate special credentials in BlueSky settings!
Go to "App Passwords", create new credentials and have BlueSky generate new password.
Those credentials allow 3rd party apps to access your account but with lesser permissions - your account is safe with those!
What the plugin does is read all the accounts in your Following and searches for the same usernames, handles, bios, etc. on BlueSky using your account.
Plugin searches for people faster than it autoscrolls your Following list, so it may think it hit the bottom of the list.
If that happens, go through all people it found, close the pop-up window, scroll back to last person it found and run it again (WITHOUT refreshing!).
though I did only follow like 200 people so.
Hopefully some other newbies see this before they do what I did
@dbl7even.bsky.social
Got booted off twatter
What about threads? Do you need a computer
Glad this exists for others to not have such a hellish time finding their people ❤️
(Shit, I think I need to do it for my OWN followers, as well. Uh...)
I tried multiple times and it doesn't find anything for me :(