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.
Jeremy Herve
WordPress, TV Series, music, kids, and board games. I think that’s probably the best way to define me in a few words. 🙂
I work at Automattic where I lead a team building tools for bloggers and creators. I talk a lot about WordPress things, but also about all things open source in general.
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I live in Brittany, France, so you’ll also find me sharing pictures from our beautiful region from time to time.
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Jeremy Herve
WordPress, TV Series, music, kids, and board games. I think that’s probably the best way to define me in a few words. 🙂
I work at Automattic where I lead a team building tools for bloggers and creators. I talk a lot about WordPress things, but also about all things open source in general.
I post in English and in French.
I live in Brittany, France, so you’ll also find me sharing pictures from our beautiful region from time to time.
1,236 posts
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@jeremy @davew but this is only possible for higher plans on WordPress.com and not yet on the free one.
@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/
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 @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
If they don’t display the text with all the features in Bluesky then who cares what other formats there are?
@davew @jeremy Lots of us
@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
@librenews @jeremy
I have a better idea, skip atproto and just use RSS.
We already have the code Matt.
I’ve written stuff that works in Bluesky and think atproto is the worst designed format I’ve ever seen, and they break apps!
Their product is a trap.
Yeah I loved twitter, but unlike most other people I always knew it was a trap.
@jeremy
My goal here is to break the limits on writers.
The web is a fine place to write but the social media apps staring w twitter and Facebook removed most of the features leaving us with a wrecked writing space.
I don’t accept these limits, that’s why bloggers of mastodon is so important. It crashes thru the limits in masto, thus making Bluesky need to match it if this becomes popular.