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It's not gated. I can still talk to people fully in the Blacksky stack and interact with their public posts. The usual pattern is like that Alex Norris comic:

by Kye 7mo ago

It's not gated. I can still talk to people fully in the Blacksky stack and interact with their public posts. The usual pattern is like that Alex Norris comic: "you do not fit in here" "okay we will make our own place" "why are you excluding us" "oh no" Except here they can stay connected with the broader Atmosphere but engage on their own terms.

illithid0 7mo ago
I might be missing something about the protocol, but when logged into BlueSky, I can't interact with BlackSky accounts at all. I specifically have to have an account there to even follow a BlackSky account. I'm not as familiar with ATProto as ActivityPub, but following someone from another Mastodon instance, for example, is seamless as long as I'm logged in to the account I have on my home instance.
- pfraze 7mo ago
  Can you describe what happens? That would be a pretty significant bug. Users are hosted all over the place and typically interact fine.
  - illithid0 7mo ago
    I was trying to interact with the account mentioned in the grekpak blog post here: https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7r6qv3rw https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7... I can't comment, follow, like, or anything like that without getting the "Sign in or create your account to join the cookout!" popup. I wasn't trying to cause problems or get downvoted, this is just the the first non-BlueSky PDS I've ever come across and was curious to see the federation work.
    - pfraze 7mo ago
      Oh just look them up on the app you have an account with (I believe bluesky). @rude1.blacksky.team
      - illithid0 7mo ago
        Ah, okay, thank you. I was expecting it to work more like Mastodon in the sense that I can go to a different instance and interact with accounts seamlessly without having to bring them up in my own instance, but this is fine, too.
- rubyn00bie 7mo ago
  I follow, and am followed by, folks who use Blacksky and interact with them regularly. I have had zero issue with this, at any point. As Paul (the CTO of Bluesky) said in a sibling comment this would be a very serious bug. FWIW— I have also not heard anything even remotely close to this at all from anyone using either service.

by Kye 7mo ago

illithid0 7mo ago

I might be missing something about the protocol, but when logged into BlueSky, I can't interact with BlackSky accounts at all. I specifically have to have an account there to even follow a BlackSky account. I'm not as familiar with ATProto as ActivityPub, but following someone from another Mastodon instance, for example, is seamless as long as I'm logged in to the account I have on my home instance.

pfraze 7mo ago
Can you describe what happens? That would be a pretty significant bug. Users are hosted all over the place and typically interact fine.
- illithid0 7mo ago
  I was trying to interact with the account mentioned in the grekpak blog post here: https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7r6qv3rw https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7... I can't comment, follow, like, or anything like that without getting the "Sign in or create your account to join the cookout!" popup. I wasn't trying to cause problems or get downvoted, this is just the the first non-BlueSky PDS I've ever come across and was curious to see the federation work.
  - pfraze 7mo ago
    Oh just look them up on the app you have an account with (I believe bluesky). @rude1.blacksky.team
    - illithid0 7mo ago
      Ah, okay, thank you. I was expecting it to work more like Mastodon in the sense that I can go to a different instance and interact with accounts seamlessly without having to bring them up in my own instance, but this is fine, too.
rubyn00bie 7mo ago
I follow, and am followed by, folks who use Blacksky and interact with them regularly. I have had zero issue with this, at any point. As Paul (the CTO of Bluesky) said in a sibling comment this would be a very serious bug. FWIW— I have also not heard anything even remotely close to this at all from anyone using either service.