@osma Considered, yes; tried, not yet. It ought to be possible to use our own domain with bridgy fed, from what I understand (https://fed.brid.gy/docs#fediverse-enhanced ), but I have no idea how accounts pop up on the other side.

Also we have some fringe accounts here which are tolerable on the fediverse because nobody follows them unless they know what they're doing, and entire instances block them (say nazi-adjacent content on German instances), but can we trust BS to work just as well?

@osma Oh wait, did you mean bridging/mirroring *from* official BlueSky accounts of EU officials etc. into the fediverse? That would make sense, if we expect that BlueSky won't converge to the ActivityPub fediverse any time soon, but also it would mean adding new accounts here, something we've not done for years. At this point I'm questioning whether #ResPublicae really adds any significant value over bridges like bird.makeup or bridgy fed, so I don't have much motivation to expand it.

@praetor
That's what I meant, yes. IMHO, there's some (marginal) value in the domain name. BridgyFed bridged accounts all show up with the same unspecific server domain, while yours could signal something else. For example, here at mas.to bird.makeup has been blocked for ages, but respublicae has not been.

@osma That's useful to know, thank you! I thought the number of instances blocking bird.makeup would be comparable (~400 vs. ~200) but clearly there are some big differences beyond that.