ability to search bridged accounts

[Die4Ever]

I'm a Mastodon user, and I would like to be able to search the bridged accounts to find Bluesky users that I can follow

[snarfed]

Yes! You can generally search for ap.brid.gy in Bluesky to find bridged Mastodon accounts, https://fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky-follow-fediverse , but there's no good corollary for the other direction, for both technical and cultural reasons. ActivityPub isn't designed for global views of the network like search engines and directories, you have to build them separately, and when people do, the fediverse actively resists them and works to shut them down. There are opt-in-only examples, eg https://fediverse.info/explore/people , but they tend to be pretty useless, eg that one only has ~5k people out of the fediverse's total ~12M user base.