Bridges like Bridgy-Fed and others can connect Fediverse to interact with Bluesky from their Fediverse account. Bridges are an opt-in which I think its a great thing for privacy. But at the same time, I don't think the majority of Fediverse users who would be interested in using bridges know that they exist.

What I am suggesting is that large Fediverse instances (and Bluesky) encourage and make it easy to use brigdes by having an easy tool to turn on or turn off bridges.

An example situation could be when someone creates an account on mastadon.social, a small pop up shows ups explaining what bridges are in two-three sentences, and has a recommended bridge to use along with a drop down of other options to choose from, and ask it they would like to bridge or not like to bridge.

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Bridge should just work based on the account's discoverable flag, ie if it's true you're opted into the Bridge.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thats a really interesting and novel idea! You could also give granularity based off of that, so people still have ultimate control, but then it's only one setting you have to learn about and it's not following an account, which feels like a hacky UX