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.
did the thing work?
@dyke.science huh... i tried replying back and forth with someone else and *that* worked, but for some reason my previous reply to you didn't make it back to bsky. i'm sending this one to see if that was just a hiccup.
yeah most likely, they seem to be getting a lot of new traffic
@dyke.science okay, this one made it to bsky. so far there's been 1 dropped message from my account to bsky. i'll keep an eye on that to see if it gets worse. bridgy's servers may have just been overloaded or something.