It's a very long post, but a lot of it is a detailed discussion of terminology in the appendix -- no need to read that unless you're into definitional struggles.

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

So, I find people talking about blue sky confusing; if I search for a bluesky user to follow via Mastodon, I don't see them come up. Does that just mean my server isn't federated with them? I'm on mastodon.online, which I think is one of the biggest instances.

It'd be cool if I could actually interact with blue sky but it's really not clear to me how it works if I don't have a blue sky account and am interacting externally

[–] thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There isn't direct federation between Mastodon and Bluesky; instead, Bridgy Fed connects them - https://fed.brid.gy/docs#fediverse-get-started

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gotcha. I understand why they chose to do it that way, but I do kinda wish it was possible to just follow someone

Thank you very much for the link/explanation!

[–] thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's somewhat useful but certainly not a great solution. It's great that they went the opt-in route, but there aren't any good existing frameworks for how to do it, so they had to roll their own. There's certainly room for improvement, it would be great if either Bluesky or the Social Web Foundation (or both) or somebody else invested in it, but hard to know if and when thta'll happen.