Eugen RochkoIf you’ve got questions about what interoperability with #Threads means, we wrote this up back in July, and you can still refer to it:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
Make no mistake, this is huge for Mastodon. Currently people have to choose between X, Mastodon, and Threads, and network effects play a dominant role in that choice. If we can say, you can access all the folks that went to Threads from a Mastodon account, that makes it a far more attractive option given all of its other perks 😉
Graham Downs@Gargron I, for one, am looking forward to this. It's one more nail in X's coffin. Some of my friends moved to Threads, so now I can follow them again.
Others moved to Bluesky. I can't follow them YET, but it seems they're also trialling federation, so I might be able to soon.
Pretty soon, anyone still on X and nowhere else is really going to start feeling the isolation.
Andrew 
@GrahamDowns @Gargron oh but you can :)
@aoc.bsky.social @jay.bsky.team etc
and if you thought that was cool, how about following X accounts on the Fediverse? @elonmusk
@spiritedpause @Gargron That's incredible!
Is that a two-way thing? Can those bsky people follow me back? And if I reply to their posts, will see my replies and be able to reply back?
And how do I know whether to use bsky.social or bsky.team? Or are they interchangeable?
@spiritedpause And oh yes, I know about bird.makeup. But that's just one-way. I'm looking for full two-way interaction. It looks like that's what Threads wants to offer us. @Gargron
@GrahamDowns @Gargron It's only one way right now until Bluesky turns on their federation. Once they do, they'll be able to see replies from Mastodon accounts, since this bridge will create a Bluesky profile that mirrors your Mastodon account and its posts/replies.
bsky.social and bsky.team are just different "instances" on bluesky. Just so happens that AOC uses the bsky.social instance that most users do, while Bluesky team members use bsky.team
@spiritedpause Ah. OK, cool. I get it now. Shows how little I know about Bluesky. ;-) @Gargron
73 million seconds@spiritedpause @GrahamDowns they are not different instances, bluesky only has one instance for now because it has no federation working in production yet. the domain of a bluesky handle is unrelated to instances.
@73ms @GrahamDowns Ah yeah good catch, my mistake.