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But do you need an account?
And can it grab content from other instances?
If not, Bluesky will continue to win:-(, but if so, then this should be integrated into the main branch ASAP and the word gotten out, to help keep people fleeing from X but offering a better (FOSS) alternative to Bluesky!:-)
No need for another account, since it's log in via your Mastodon account.
As I understand it, it's a more feature-rich alternative frontend (think like Alexandrite/Photon for Lemmy), so it's grabbing content in the sense that any ActivityPub instance does so. So...Yes? Unless you meant in a different way.
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It sounds like "maybe" and "no".
The Bluesky "Catch Up" feed you can view as a guest, entirely anonymously without needing to createna Bluesky account first. This makes it more like Lemmy or Reddit or Mastodon, and unlike Facebook or X or Ticktock where account creation is mandatory. But if you need a Mastodon account - as your link seems to suggest - then that acts as a barrier to people checking it out prior to deciding whether to join or not, e.g. it doesn't create a "welcoming" environment.
And Bluesky is centralized, so it doesn't even need to pull in content from other instances, whereas Mastodon does, and unless someone has done the work for you to subscribe to something (I don't use Mastodon so I don't know what this would need to be: a person's account?), it won't be on the instance, by design.
In short, the Bluesky "Catch Up" feed just works, instantly, right away, with no extra steps needed, whereas s your link needs creation of an account, which requires first deciding on an instance, and that instance having decided to install that optional software component, and then you have to use the special link to choose that alternative front-end client, and then you need to... on and on it goes, by which point the person has long ago already switched to Bluesky.
I'm not trying to be a dick here, just explaining that there are reasons that people choose to use the products that WORK for them, yes even Reddit, and choose to avoid products that require ~~installation of Arch Linux btw~~ additional effort, like Mastodon.
I follow where you're coming from.
I can see the perks to the Bluesky option, but given it's centralized, venture capital funded (and they're already trying to figure out monetization), and so forth, I'm personally not inclined to rely on much related to it.
However, I'm very aware of the hurdles the option I shared present to those unfamiliar with all of this, and why they'd choose otherwise. Then again, we're here using this stuff, I'm posting from a microblogging instance (Sharkey) to you, and so my posts are also indirectly for others on other microblogging instances (like those using Mastodon).
For anyone these replies may reach on a Mastodon instance, using Phanpy is much simpler. It's just going to Phanpy.social, logging in with their info, and they're set to use it. Much like someone on Lemmy can go to Phtn.app and give Photon a try.
All that said it would be preferable if there was a guest accessible version to Phanpy (or any similar catch up-style service for fediverse stuff), without a doubt.
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