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Explore Bluesky social network without invitation

3 points by skopf ↗ HN
Bluesky recently gained a lot of media attention, but is still invite only.

If you want to already explore the network while sitting on the waitlist, here is a small trick: The SPXP bridge is already handling the AT protocol! You can use it to explore the network via SPXP, for example Jack's account: https://bridge.spxp.org/at/@jack.bsky.social

You can either hop through the json data in a web browser (Firefox works best) or use a mobile client like the https://heyfolks.app. It even suggests a couple of Bluesky accounts to follow on initial setup.

If you want to learn more about the SPXP protocol: https://github.com/spxp/spxp-specs/tree/master#social-profile-exchange-protocol

6 comments

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perfect-blue
Just say’s “Profile not available.”
mwiesen
Which profile do you want to see? Do you have the address of the profile in it's network? Or a profile name?
perfect-blue
I just followed OP’s link. Didn’t work when I posted the comment.
skopf
Thanks for reporting. I just tried it again, and it works for me: https://bridge.spxp.org/at/@jack.bsky.social

Maybe there has been a communication problem to the bsky servers or a copy/paste problem.

perfect-blue
Gotcha. I now just get the following text output:

{ "ver" : "0.3", "name" : "jack", "shortInfo" : "Bridged from bsky.social", "profilePhoto" : "https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:pl...", "postsEndpoint" : "https://bridge.spxp.org/at/did:plc:6fktaamhhxdqb2ypum33kbkj/...", "friendsEndpoint" : "https://bridge.spxp.org/at/did:plc:6fktaamhhxdqb2ypum33kbkj/..." }