This is an incredible achievement by Ryan and Anuj — they’ve made things possible that we couldn’t accomplish before: one big, interoperable, federated social network!

But as users and developers, we should never forget that this is still a bridge. I hope it doesn’t make us lazy, because it fills a gap that should really be natively supported by all ActivityPub platforms: account portability (not talking about moving from ActivityPub to AT-Proto). The current Move feature in Mastodon works well within Mastodon, but can actually cause problems on other platforms. We faced significant challenges in bringing proper Move support to WordPress and have currently paused the initiative, as it isn’t reliable enough yet: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/milestone/5

So as much as I appreciate both the idea and the implementation, I hope this will remain only a temporary solution — and that we will eventually develop a proper, native one. Otherwise, we risk losing all of our followers if this bridge service ever goes down!