If I have mastodon, how and when can I follow Blue sky users? I read something about an adapter server or something, but I don't know what that means in a practical sense.

[–] timconspicuous@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There is Bridgy Fed, which bridges accounts over to the other side if they follow the respective Bridgy Fed account on their platform. This is opt-ín though, so you can't just follow anyone, they need to have followed @ap.brid.gy on Bluesky. To have your interactions bridged you need to follow @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy.

If the account you want to follow is not bridged and you are okay with just reading their posts, you can also use a service like RSS Parrot as every Bluesky account also serves as an RSS feed.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Just an FYI for the RSS thing: if a Bluesky account is set to be viewable to logged-in users only, its RSS feed will not work. It only works if the profile is viewable publicly without logging in.

[–] Berin@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What timconspicuous said. Make sure your instance hasn't blocked bluesky as well