My experimental Mastodon to Bluesky bridge has shut down, and the relief is palpable. I intended to connect the good stuff on Mastodon to the Bluesky environment, but much like a clogged sewer line, the back pressure was… unfortunate.
In my last post, I discussed how Bluesky’s ATProtocol made automation with IFTTT and Zapier nearly impossible. Fortunately, at least in Zapier’s case, “almost” was the operative word. I found a couple of extremely useful JavaScript chunks on the Zapier forums that provided the bedrock for a subsequent solution. And now, viola! When I post to Mastodon, a matching post is made automatically to Bluesky… with some caveats. But let’s start with the fundamentals of this Zap.
Twitter is dying, but which of the three biggest replacement options will reign supreme? I explore one of those services — Bluesky — in depth. (Spoiler: I still prefer Mastodon.)
As Twitter continues to descend farther down the proverbial drain, it seems like storm clouds are forming over the Fediverse as well. Recently, a game was released about a certain fictional school for young wizards and witches. The author is a controversial figure with regard to transgender rights and feminism, among other topics. As such, … Naval Warfare
There has been, for some time, an independent and AI-free chain of related social media services. Collectively, they’re known as the “Fediverse,” because they use a computing concept called “federation” to interact with one another. These services have languished in near obscurity due to the fact that corporate social media is more accessible to the … The Fediverse Archipelago
