Mike McCue
I’m loving my timeline here in the fediverse. I seamlessly follow and engage with people posting via Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Ghost, Wordpress and Flipboard. The social web is here and it’s just awesome.
Dec 6, 2024 at 5:05amWeb
Show threadMike McCueDec 6, 2024

And what’s also fun is I’m getting likes and replies from people using different apps and networks. So cool!

Feels like Mastodon is the Rosetta Stone of the social web.

Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Dec 6, 2024
@mike yes!!
Show thread::celDec 6, 2024
@mike Misskey people represent!
Show threadMike McCueDec 6, 2024
@celbri I’m following people from misskey too!
Show threadHenry BraunDec 6, 2024
@mike what do you do about running into “you must be logged in to see this post” on Bluesky? If not for that I’d consider deleting my account there
Show threadMike McCueDec 6, 2024
@hbraun good question. You can engage with any of these Bluesky posts if you bridge your Mastodon account to Bluesky. It’s super easy to do this. Just follow @bsky.brid.gy
Show threadraspbeguyDec 6, 2024
@mike not Bluesky. That's not using ActivityPub.
Show threadMike McCueDec 6, 2024
@raspbeguy i follow bridged Bluesky users like @jay.bsky.team and @mmasnick.bsky.social and it works great!
Show threadTod Maffin 🇨🇦Dec 6, 2024
@mike @raspbeguy @jay.bsky.team @mmasnick.bsky.social How does this work? Bluesky users have to manually use that bridging web site? Or is that something Mastodon users do to pull in ANY Bluesky account?
Show threadDana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎Dec 6, 2024
@tod @mike @raspbeguy @jay.bsky.team @[email protected] from what I can tell, the bsky account also has to follow the bridge. I have not been able to make it work to pull in accounts where this is not b the case.
Show threadMike McCueDec 6, 2024

@raspbeguy @jay.bsky.team @mmasnick.bsky.social And BTW, I wish more people on Threads turned on federation and more people on Bluesky bridged their account to the fediverse. But some of the coolest people i know have done this so i can follow them from both Mastodon and Flipboard.

Thankfully I think a lot more people will federate and bridge their accounts in the weeks and months ahead. In the not too distant future, we’ll all just be on the same open social network.

Show threadraspbeguyDec 6, 2024
@mike @jay.bsky.team @mmasnick.bsky.social They're using a bridge so of course it works, but that's not related to the fediverse then.
Show threadraspbeguyDec 6, 2024
@mike @jay.bsky.team @mmasnick.bsky.social You also have bridges from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram... Bridges are not maintained by those networks. On the opposite, Threads users are (kinda) natively availabl eon the fediverse and it is maintained by Threads itself.
Show threadMike McCueDec 6, 2024
@raspbeguy @jay.bsky.team @mmasnick.bsky.social that’s exactly the point of the fediverse. I can see posts from all these people in one timeline regardless of where they’re posting from. The fediverse is all about being able to follow and engage with the people I want from any compatible app I want to use while they can post and engage from any compatible app they want to use. It could still use some improvement to make things more seamless but this is already a huge step forward.
Show threadDavid B. HimselfDec 8, 2024
@raspbeguy @mike @[email protected] @[email protected] It's works. That's the point.
Show threadDan GillmorDec 6, 2024
@mike Still a long way from Threads and Bluesky being fully interoperable with fediverse...
Show threadMike McCueDec 6, 2024
@dangillmor yes. But a bunch of smart people are working on making this easier and better every day.
Show threadDan GillmorDec 6, 2024
@mike After watching decades of corporate bait and switch and "embrace, extend, extinguish" -- call me skeptical...
Show threadMike PDec 6, 2024
@dangillmor @mike We're still a long way from the Fediverse being fully interoperable with itself.
Show threadBrandon TrabonDec 6, 2024
@mike It truly is amazing to be able to communicate with so many users of different instances without needing an account on each.
Show threadBuilding ActivityPubDec 9, 2024
The future is now 🫡