So confused that skybridge is now getting all the media attention lol. Its been around for over a year and hasnt been updated for 3 months. It works fine, its just that nobody actually bothered to use it. Not really clear how 800 dollars is going to make a difference here.
They should have been giving their money to Bridgy Fed, which is working to bridge the actual content of social media rather than the app APIs.
Well, actually, I would much rather Bridgy remains independent from Dorsey's blood money. Bluesky should just enable federation on a large scale so that it'll actually be possible to build services around it. Right now they cap federated instances at ten users, which is a complete joke.
Bluesky had announced last month that it would use some portion of its funds to fuel efforts in the developer ecosystem via the AT Protocol Grant program.
Notes SkyBridge’s developer @videah.net on Bluesky, the project is currently undergoing a significant rewrite from Dart to Rust, which is why its GitHub repo hasn’t seen much activity lately.
“It’s already proving to be much more stable, hoping to show it off soon,” videah posted on Bluesky when sharing the news of the grant.
Instagram Threads (which is integrating with ActivityPub) now has more than 150 million monthly active users, Meta announced this week during earnings.
Another software developer, Ryan Barrett, was the recipient of some backlash on GitHub when building another bridge called Bridgy Fed, which would be opt-out by default — meaning Mastodon posts would show up on Bluesky even if the post’s author hadn’t opted into this.
He readjusted his plans to build a discoverable opt-in instead, which would allow users to request to follow accounts on the different networks.
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