This is for connecting Bluesky accounts to Mastodon (and the other way too).

An OP wants to use Bluesky app as a client of Mastodon

Did you mean SkyBridge, but in reverse?

Re: 4

No app for Bluesky will help with this, because the purpose for the client (“app”) is to use the API (a Bluesky one right now). And Mastodon’s API provides exactly these not-federating like numbers - the problem you actually try to solve.
The number of likes and boosts has to be fetched directly from an original instance. Moshidon for Android does already like this and Fedilab for Android allows to fetch an entire conversation.
Bluesky clients have no concept for this they needed it.

You will probably have to ask hilariouschaos admins themselves (well, on an alt)

For instances of mainstream Misskey:

https://misskey.de (instance by maintainers of Friendica instances libranet.de and venera.social)
I’m using misskey.social from Italy, but they have some annoying limits for new or less-followed accounts e.g. how many people can you reply to in one post (this would shut you out from some discussions…)

For Sharkey:
https://blahaj.zone by maintainers of namesake Lemmy instance
https://calckey.world or https://sharkey.world by, well, .world
https://procial.tchncs.de

For Iceshrimp: https://fedia.social (from maintainers of fedia.io and infosec.*)

They are actually tankies

And it is. But only for official app

Together with Misskey and /kbin Mbin it should be between Mastodon and Friendica

I echo the sentiment that there aren’t a lot of Asian people on Mastodon. Although it seems that vivaldi.net is mostly Japanese people.

Asians are mainly using their national instances. Several largest Mastodon instances are Japanese (Pawoo, mstdn.jp, Fedibird), there are also pretty large Korean (planet.moe) or Chinese ones (m.cmx.im, alive.bar, wxw.moe). Outside East Asia, Asian instances tend to be small, though.

I’ve just discovered, that time stamps don’t work on embeds! (checked on Photon, Tesseract and PieFed)

That is, Diaspora aspects.

Why not both?

We have topics here, voting is private, image communities can be tiled, there are some differences in rep counting, etc.

All differences

Not until they are eclipsed by proprietary ActivityPub apps. Threads and Flipboard already exist.

However, there is no AP but proprietary rival to e.g. Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed (edit: there will be?) or PeerTube.

ursal.zone
mastodon.com.br
masto.donte.com.br
cwb.social (Curitiba)

or other smaller instances listed in my post in Polish :)

Isn’t it like https://kbin.world was back then? (when /kbin was still a thing?)

When you entered that page, it determined your location from IP address and redirected you to a magazine for your country, as shown on kbin.social.

Well, this could be repeated now, but for lemmy instances. We already have umpteen of regional/local ones, and they are on every continent of the world.

Just having to explain to people that “lemmy.com” isn’t a thing(…)

https://lemmy.com is actually a thing… ;)

The largest Brazilian Mastodon instance, Ursalzona proudly displays hammer and sickle in its favicon and a logo of its admin account.

its community was probably tied up in discussions who to deferderate from next

Seeing Ursalzona admin’s pinned thread - you nailed it.

I did not check Bluecast, but Bluemotion videos appear on Bluesky as links to page of that video on Bluemotion

And it looks that Bluemotion will not attempt to compete with You/PeerTube: the creator plans to end the service as Bluesky started to support video posting

Video platform (like FediMovie): https://www.bluemotion.app
Audio streaming: https://www.bluecast.app