Mastodawn

Jeremy Herve Sep 15, 2025

@scripting

the cool thing about the Blogs of Mastodon is you can’t do it on Bluesky, yet. But we hope they will support this too.

@davew Bluesky users can already follow your blog on Bluesky if you use the ActivityPub plugin and if you configure it like so.

The Bloggers of Mastodon

A quick idea. You can now pretty much write a blog on Mastodon. I am doing such a thing here now. This site is emanating from a WordPress site, on a server I run myself. But I've also install…

daveverse

@jeremy

What does the result on Bluesky look like?

Does the character limit go away?

Can it handle links and style?

Can I edit my posts?

Optional titles?

Etc.

My guess is their limits remain.

If you want to understand where I’m coming from at the center is textcasting.

http://textcasting.org/

Textcasting

Applying the philosophy of podcasting to text.

Jeremy Herve Sep 15, 2025

@davew Here is an example:

https://bsky.app/profile/jeremy.herve.bzh.ap.brid.gy/post/3lxatofyputi2

The limits remain indeed. This is “only” a bridge, so when the post lands on Bluesky it still has to respect the constraints of the platform.

Jeremy Herve (@jeremy.herve.bzh.ap.brid.gy)

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Bluesky Social

@jeremy @davew Longform content is stored as different lexicons in Bluesky. There isn't a one to one comparison. Same with Nostr. So you could easily hook activitypub up to those longform types. And they usually have RSS as well. It's up to the dev. ActivityPub doesn't define content schemas, just delivery

@librenews @jeremy

In masto I don’t care how it got there. My blog posts show up as blog posts, so they win the prize and if it becomes popular Bluesky will have a competitive problem, which can be solved by supporting the text of the web not twitters crippled idea of what text is.

So my job is to get people to see masto as a web writing platform. I don’t care if it’s activitypub or zabars that makes it possible.

@davew @jeremy You conflate Bluesky and ATProto. I understand, but I disagree

@librenews @jeremy

I do not! I only care about Bluesky. I think atproto is very very uninteresting. Very. I don’t understand why you care?

Btw Matt and I are long term friends from ny so I’m pretty sure he doesn’t mind if I use nyc dialect. 👻

@davew @jeremy You loved Twitter Dave! I'm going to do some work to get my longform content from ATProto into and out of Masto and RSS

@davew @jeremy BTW, one big reason I care about ATProto is because it largely solves the S3-like data store that Dave has advocated for that apps can use but the user owns. I can host my own data or leave it to others that I pay and all apps can use it.

@librenews @jeremy

But you’re betting on the wrong pony Matt. They’re going to break your heart.

Matt Terenzio

@davew @jeremy I’m on my way to self hosting, so they can do what they like. But we’ll see