Hmm. Your plugin looks like it's probably way easier to deal with than the bridge. I should've asked first.

I don't know if there's any way to allow Bluesky folks to post comments here.

@Daniel Lowe
The bridge, as well as requiring extra action from Bluesky users, is not showing some users in my feed that seem to be configured identically to the ones I do see.

I broke down and created a Bluesky account and set up the plugin, but that seems to have the opposite problem - I'm getting every post my follows commented on. I changed General Settings under social networks to only pull conversations started by my follows, but I'm still seeing the commented posts in my feed. I'm not sure if stuff already pulled will continue to hang out in the feed after the settings are changed.

Considering how simple my goals are, it's surprising how difficult it is to reach them. That's true for almost everything in social networking.

Sigh. you're not wrong.

I have a philosophical reason for banging on this so hard -- I think the only way that dropping Facebook can gain traction is if we can get a critical mass of people we want to interact with away from it. Consolidating all the Facebook alternatives is one way to make that happen.

I find Bluesky kind of creepy in a way I can't fully define. I hoped that the bridge would work so I wouldn't need to make an account there. But right now it has several times the number of users I want to interact with than the fediverse.

It's just another billionaire's pet project that is architected specifically to avoid criticisms of content sorting and moderation. "We federate so you can make your own!" These systems are all friendly until their growth curve stops, at which point they start the money extraction.

I think what's creepy is just seeing the same thing happen again and again.