While OCW.Social is a Mastodon server, it is possible for Mastodon and BlueSky to interact with each other with the help of Bridgy Fed. In addition, Mastodon users can set up their bridged account on BlueSky with the ocw.social domain as it's handle and BlueSky users can use the ocw.social domain for their handle.
- 👉 For Mastodon users, you can follow these instructions.
- 👉 For BlueSky users, you can follow these instructions.
If you want to set up your bridged Mastodon account on BlueSky with the ocw.social domain as your handle, follow these steps:
- Make sure to follow @[email protected] on our server first so that a bridged account on BlueSky can be made.
- Once you get the private mention from that account that it has successfully bridged your account, send a private mention to it with the following:
@[email protected] did
- Once it replies back with the
DID, copy that and send me a message on Discord with it and what you want your handle to be.- For example if you want your handle to be
@jwinger.ocw.social, send mejwinger.
- For example if you want your handle to be
- Once I set up everything on my end and verify that it will work, I will message you back saying you're good to go for the next step.
- Then you can send another private mention to
@[email protected]with the following (Just replacejwingerwith the username you wanted):
@[email protected] username jwinger.ocw.social
Your bridge account on BlueSky will now be that custom handle.
Important
Instructions will be added later once I can confirm that BlueSky users that have already bridged their accounts to Mastodon can safely change their handle to use the ocw.social domain.
