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@SabinaKnight@zirk.us No problem, anything that helps to convince people there to enable the bridge is fine by me.

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@SabinaKnight@zirk.us Normally yes, my bridged profile is visible on Bsky at https://bsky.app/profile/brecht.pamphlets.me

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@dalias@hachyderm.io Hm, I don't have mine linked to a bank account, so I guess that wouldn't work then.

I'm also a bit confused by the "active friends" requirement. That makes no sense if you're just getting started. This screen actually looks a lot like the account recovery flow. The way that works is you have to give the number on the screen to one of your existing contacts, and they have to send it in a chat to your account on WeChat, which will then unblock your account. But I don't see how that could work for a new account.

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@dalias@hachyderm.io Possibly? You happen to know where in the app I can see whether I have it or not?

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Found myself wondering how things are going over at post.news these days...

503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Oh.

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@davidallengreen@mastodon.green Ha fair play. I tend not to assume that interlocutors will know the finer points of catholic theology, but there you go.

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@davidallengreen@mastodon.green Fun fact: like so many "medieval" things, the dogma of papal infallibility was actually a nineteenth century invention. (I'm aware this wasn't your main point, but I hope it's at least mildly interesting.)

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@SabinaKnight@zirk.us Yep it works, I managed to follow your Bsky account.

Personally I prefer it here on my own personal server that I can make and break myself, but I'm trying to convince as many people as possible to bridge their Bsky accounts so that I can have my cake and eat it.

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@SabinaKnight@zirk.us If you're focusing on Bsky, it might be interesting to follow @ ap.brid.gy over there. That opts you in to a service that lets people follow and interact with you there from here.

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Life's to short to hold grudges. That's why I try to reserve mine for immortal beings such as vampires, long-dead philosophers, and corporations.

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@fesshole@mastodon.social Another installment of the "How to Make Sure You Die Alone" miniseries running here on Fesshole.

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@janl@narrativ.es Right, I wasn't really trying to make a technical point though. I merely wanted to point our that people have already done something like this with the available tools and I don't remember there being any meaningful backlash against it.

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@janl@narrativ.es It is already kind of possible to create starter packs if using correctly formatted CSVs with Mastodon's "Import followers" feature. I recall @stavvers@masto.ai actually tried to onboard some people this way a while back, so she might have some insights both on the UX of the process and how it was received from a "fediverse norms" POV.

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@brecht.defeat.art@bsky.brid.gy Everything back under control now... I think.

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So it seems I accidentally broke sending out posts from this server about three weeks ago. So no one's been reading any of my stuff the entire time and I didn't even notice until now. Awkward.

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The fact that the word 低音 is pronounced with two high tones breaks my brain every time I encounter it.

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Here's a simple line to use if you ever need it: YouTube, Facebook, Xitter and the likes are mainstream media.