Connect your Bluesky account to the Fediverse

By Samantha Xavia

Having a Bluesky account can mean locking yourself off from the rest of the Fediverse at the moment, due to there custom protocol 'AT Protocol', I'm here today to give you a tutorial on how to make it so your Bluesky profile can be found on the rest of the Fediverse (Decentralised Social Media), as well as if you have a Fediverse account making it viewable on Bluesky.

Bluesky

If you wish for your Bluesky account to connect to the rest of the Fediverse you simply follow @ap.brid.gy on your account.

After doing this you should be able to find your profile on Mastodon (or other Fediverse Software) via @[Your Handle]@bsky.brid.gy so for expample our VEX.blue account is @vex.blue so ours would be @vex.blue@bsky.brid.gy or if you wanted to go with my 'Alt' account for personal use it's @samxavia.bsky.social making my account be found on the fediverse as @samxavia.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Simple right? Yes it is, sadly as of the recent flow of traffic from Brazil the syncing for Bluesky to the Fediverse is taking over 24 hours but will hopefully change in the near future.

Bridgy Fed is struggling to handle the recent flood of new Bluesky users. 10-20x usage increase, wow! Fediverse => Bluesky is still bridging ok, but Bluesky => fediverse is well over a day behind. It'll take me some time to optimize it enough to handle the new load. Apologies for the delay!

— Bridgy Fed for the fediverse (@ap.brid.gy) Sep 2, 2024 at 07:39

Fediverse

Like connecting your bluesky account to the Fediverse you simply follow an account, this time @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy

You'd then find your account on bluesky as @[username].[Domain].ap.brid.gy so for my @sam@southampton.social account that I use for personal posting it'll be @sam.southampton.social.ap.brid.gy

This is obviously a long domain but it functions, sadly either way you sync your account any people that comment on your posts will need to do the opposite steps to make sure their account is accessible on the other platform(s).

Conclusion

It is simple to make your Bluesky or Fediverse account accessible with eachother, why not do it. All it will gain is the possible other service to access and be able to communicate with you, what is what the Fediverse is truely meant to be. From now on we at VEX.blue will not only be crossposting all of our posts between Mastodon, Threads & Bluesky but will cross our accounts over allowing people to follow whatever one they find more useful.