Frontpage RFC: Cross posting to Bluesky
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Hey 👋 if you don’t know us already, we’re building Frontpage; an AT Procol based federated link aggregator. We shipped an initial MVP in closed beta recently and have since been thinking about the road to general availability.

This post is an RFC (Request for Comments) targeted at technically minded folks who are interested in seeing the progression of atproto for non-Bluesky/microblogging use cases. All that’s to say the language that follows assumes some knowledge about how Bluesky and atproto work! I’ve tried to include links to explain what all of the jargon means though, so hopefully it’s not entirely nonsense for folks a little less familiar!

When you post on Frontpage, we propose that a mirror post will also be created in your Bluesky account. When you comment on Frontpage, we propose that a mirror reply will be created in your Bluesky account.

Conversely, when you reply to one of these mirrored posts in Bluesky - we will show it as a reply in Frontpage.

Additionally, Bluesky likes will be translated to Frontpage votes and vice versa.

  • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Agreed with most of your points

    I also think recruiting new users might be a more useful use of time than trying to just rely on poaching them from somewhere else, but uh, I couldn’t tell you really how that should or could be done.

    /r/RedditAlternatives is basically the one place we have now. We mention Lemmy there regularly, so hopefully over time it will work.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That’s kind of my comment: pulling from Reddit is probably pointless. If you’re still on reddit at this point, there’s nothing short of Spez showing up and killing your cat that’s going to make you leave.

      The Fediverse in general needs to think about being more than just a ‘we copied twitter’, and a ‘we copied youtube’, and a ‘we copied instagram’ and of course a ‘we copied reddit’ collection of things, because you can’t pull people from the thing you’re copying unless you’re better in some way that a normal person will care about.

      And I use all these fedi-things to the (mostly) exclusion of the commercial versions, but if we’re being very honest, they’re all carrying a lot of rough edges still.

      The Fediverse needs to be able to define and sell itself to people without having to say ‘we’re like x’. If you can’t explain what you’re doing and why someone should care in a way that makes them care, nobody will.

      (This is what I get for spending time with people who do marketing stuff, I guess, lol.)

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        If you’re still on reddit at this point, there’s nothing short of Spez showing up and killing your cat that’s going to make you leave.

        There are a few reasons why people on Reddit prefer to stay there rather than move elsewhere

        • the other place lacks content
        • the other place does not have their specific niche communities
        • Reddit is still okay to use

        We are kind of working on the first one (and anyway, the only way to get content is to get more and more users)

        For the second one, that’s something even harder to tackle. !newcommunities@lemmy.world tries to fill that gap, but same as above, it needs more users.

        The third one is the most interesting. At some point in the future, Reddit is going to kill old.reddit. By that time, people will look for an alternative, and if they know about Lemmy, they’ll give it a try.

        unless you’re better in some way that a normal person will care about.

        Lemmy is better than Reddit on the following points:

        • Third party apps actively developed
        • No ads hiding as posts
        • Cleaner web interfaces

        It’s just not enough at the moment, as stated above.