Joshua A.C. Newman

I just looked it up.

Red lightsaber and all.

Palpatine dissembling and all.

This is for real? Red lightsaber and all?

Link?

Kinda like when you’ve asked your friend to edit your story and now can’t finish it.

Every chapter is me forcing the characters to do the next thing because otherwise I stall, describing how beautiful things are, or facial expressions, or figuring out elaborate ways to avoid being explicit.

Hm. I can’t. Did you follow the bot back?

I’m just figuring out how it works.

Oh I’m
Psyched it’s working! I couldn’t follow you back but maybe now I can?

In case you’re wondering why I’m linking my own Mastodon server instead of using this Bluesky account, here’s Corey Doctorow explaining: pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/f...

Then I thiiink you can follow @JoshuaACNewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy ?

Me too. But not turning on a feature that allows interoperability doesn’t make the situation better.

That’s two months ago.

So, fine, don’t use it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s how interoperability works for now.

Follow Bridgy so I can follow you for real! I’m not really using this account. It’s only here so people can find me on Mastodon from Bluesky.

No, because then the conversation is split between the two. There are no threads.

It looks like there’s a delay, so it took me a little bit of mucking about to realize that it was already working for me.

Bluesky is the single point of failure I’m worried about. This is a compromise position.

It becomes moot if Bluesky supports ActivityPub or Bluesky’s protocol gains parity on critical elements so they wind up merging.

In the meantime, I consider VCs and billionaire ownership to be the threat.

@jeffehobbs.bsky.social

You can follow me for real by first following Bridgy (bsky.app/profile/ap.b...), which allows you to follow people in the Fediverse.

Then follow xeno.glyphpress.com/@JoshuaACNew... !

bsky.app/profile/ap.b...

It’s a cool thing.

@zinrock.bsky.social Hey, follow Bridgy so I can follow you from Mastodon! I just got it working!

I miss you!

Working out how to use @ap.brid.gy to get my normal account to post here.

Not yet sure how it works.

Actually, mucus protects you from infection so that’s unfair to mucus.

So, @jack is endorsing dimbulb antivax conspiracy mucus Robert Kennedy for President.

Bluesky is gonna go great.

I decided to start BlueSky the way I started Twitter:

While taking a shit.