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@Cory Doctorow Pinging to see what your opinion is on Bridgy Fed, the Bluesky - AP bridge. I know you have expressed strong negative feelings towards Bluesky that mirror my own, but I haven't caught mention of the bridge yet.

This is brought about especially because I'm trying to convince friends that have bought in to Bluesky to at least bridge and am trying to find bridged accounts to recommend to sweeten the pot (and maybe show them that there are better options than Bluesky...)

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Shiri Bailem
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@Cory Doctorow weird... care to share what the error is, I can at least share the error over to the github if it's not already there
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Shiri Bailem
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@Cory Doctorow Made an issue on github for you, I'll ping you if it gets around to a "It's all fixed"
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Shiri Bailem
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@Cory Doctorow so two things:

(a) Lead dev is also a huge fan of yours
(b) They suspect there might have been some slight confusion back when you tried, I think they saw evidence of you trying to use the webform to set things up.

github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/…

Gist of setting up the bridge is all you need to do is follow @Bridgy Fed for Bluesky , from there it may take a few hours depending on lag time but your profile on the Bluesky side will be pluralistic.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy (or profile link: bsky.app/profile/pluralistic.m…)

If you want your username to be craphound.com (or any other domain you own) let me know and I can walk you through how to change it once you're bridged. (Though I'd recommend a subdomain that you can then forward to your profile page because people get confused so easily and it seems like most Bluesky users have no idea they can just search for usernames...)

@Cory Doctorow @Bridgy Fed for Bluesky
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