doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

you're supposed to be able to invite users (10 a day i think) to bridge their accounts by DMing @bsky.brid.gy but so far when i've tried those users haven't received a DM...

@nora this is, essentially, why i see self-hosting a masto instance and bridging it to bsky (with bsky.brid.gy) as the best of both worlds. way more moderation control than just having a bsky account. and access to way more niche communities than just having a bsky account.

but, if others are also willing to bridge their accounts, still having access to the feeds of people that don't want to deal with the valleys of masto makes connecting to everyone so easy

one day we'll get legit integration but until then.....

okay, so, i found out that there's a bridge for mastodon and bsky. it's something i talked about for a while, i'm glad someone made it real.

the link is: https://fed.brid.gy/docs

it can send things from fedi -> bsky AND bsky -> fedi

all you have to do to make it work is follow the account. when you do so it will auto-generate an account on *its* AT protocol host "ap.brid.gy" and will send all of your PUBLIC (and only PUBLIC) posts to this account. but, in addition, it will also translate likes/boosts/etc between protocols.

if you want to *see* content from bsky, you have to ask that they also enable the bridge's function by following the account, but to do this all you have to do is DM the bridgy account. in doing so it will send them a DM on bsky, saying that someone requested they bridge their account by following over there and in doing so, just like before, it'll make an account here of all of their posts on bsky, which you can interact with, and your bsky "bot" account that got auto-generated earlier will post your replies there.

it's actually fairly straightforward, all things considered. follow the account, it'll create a mirror account - if you want to see someone else's content, DM bridgy and they'll DM that person and ask to bridge.

@LiquidParasyte how will you know if it's worked?

@Mondobizarrro webfishing!!

Good Boi

pack fishin

holy shit!!! the guitar!!!! you can save chords and play it for real!!!!

fishinn

ohhhh okay there's deer antler accessories, that'll have to do for now

who do i talk to about getting more critter types in webfishing

okay, it's not *exactly* what i've been thinking of. this essentially makes a "mirror" account on either bsky or on fediverse, depending on which account you want to "bridge" into which other network, while still allowing you to see posts from either network, regardless of where you started.

definitely close to what i was imagining, but not quite fully there yet.

holy shit, it seems like someone has already worked on my dream of connecting fedi (activitypub protocol) to bsky (AT protocol) - someone linked me this earlier on bsky

https://fed.brid.gy/docs

then we hit a double play of Berwick and Chomsky to establish the prior belief that its "only us" who speak, so that we can show how other researchers (Cheney and Seyfarth) observed a group of Vervet Monkeys and their behaviors with regard to certain sounds... "one recorded vervet vocalization made vervets look up, presumably for eagles; another made them look down, presumably for pythons; and a third sent them running up into the trees, a good defense against approaching leopards. Young vervets sometimes use these calls faultily, perhaps sounding a leopard alarm for a warthog. But they get better as they grow up. They learn."

and a quick spattering of different vocalization/responses
"A newer generation of scientists has been trying to understand bird vocalizations. The alarm calls of Siberian jays can be said to have been partially translated. One of their screeches indicates a sitting hawk (which prompts other jays to come together in a group), another a flying hawk (jays hide, which makes them difficult to spot), and a third a hawk actively attacking (jays fly to the treetops to search for the attacker, and possibly flee). When cheery birds known as tufted titmice make a piercing sound, other titmice may respond by collectively harrying an invading predator. Some birds even lie. Fork-tailed drongos—common, innocuous-looking little dark birds that live in Africa—sometimes mimic the alarm calls of starlings or meerkats. Duped listeners flee the nonexistent threat, leaving behind a buffet for the drongo."

i run into this discourse enough, perhaps i should write an ultimate screed against "worker-co-op-world"

it won't convince anyone but it'd be nice to centralize my thoughts.