Some friends are asking if I'll go to Bluesky. I don't want to, for reasons I'll explain. But people there can follow me at @bsky.brid.gy and it do an easy maneuver and let me know, I can follow them from here. Details to follow, including my problems with Bluesky. (1/n) - ThreadSky

johncarlosbaez.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy • 105 days ago

Some friends are asking if I'll go to Bluesky. I don't want to, for reasons I'll explain. But people there can follow me at

@bsky.brid.gy

and it do an easy maneuver and let me know, I can follow them from here. Details to follow, including my problems with Bluesky.

(1/n)

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ajsteinmetz.com•98 days ago

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johncarlosbaez.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•105 days ago

To bridge your Mastodon account to Bluesky, just follow @bsky.brid.gy. That account will then follow you back. Accept its follow and your Mastodon posts will get sent to Bluesky. If your Mastodon account is @[user]@[instance], your bridged account will have the handle [user].[instance].ap.brid […]

johncarlosbaez.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•105 days ago

To bridge your Bluesky account to Mastodon, just follow @ap.brid.gy. If you're a Bluesky user and your name there is [user], your bridged account will have the handle @[user]@bsky.brid.gy on Mastodon.

I've been saying "Mastodon" but all this should work for other fediverse accounts too.

(3/n)

johncarlosbaez.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•105 days ago

The system is clunky in some ways, e.g. if you reply to my posts on Bluesky I definitely won't see the replies here unless you bridge your Bluesky account to Mastodon. Also the character limit for me is 1729 while on Bluesky it's a measly 300. I'm keeping these posts short, but often I ramble […]

johncarlosbaez.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•105 days ago

I put a lot of work into my posts! I worked for free for Google+ and then Twitter. By now I'm tired of doing free work for big corporations. If they didn't disappear (Google+) or go fascist (Twitter) I might not mind... if it were not for the inevitable trend toward "enshittification".

(5/n)

johncarlosbaez.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•105 days ago

While the CEO of Bluesky, Jay Graber, has good intentions, she doesn't own the company. Bluesky's operation is funded by investors who are pumping in money now, but hope to get more back eventually. At that point, Bluesky will start getting worse.

(6/n)

johncarlosbaez.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•105 days ago

I can't do better than quote @pluralistic:

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

(7/n)

techlife.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy•99 days ago

@johncarlosbaez she does though. She has controlling interest and the VC firms are not shareholders. Yes they can pressure her but so far she is still in control, and her goal is to build out atproto and get federation well established before she is in a position to be strong armed by investors […]

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