While Bluesky is not part of the Fediverse (and has a questionable commitment to decentralization given its venture capital backers), it might do a better job at bolstering player counts than Mastodon. More importantly, if discussions about the game are kept primarily on lemmy.zip, it could serve as an introduction to the Fediverse for Bluesky users.

From my experience the Bluesky crowd has a very different vibe than fedi. I had set up a bridge from Mastodon to Bluesky for a while, but I disabled it because all I got was negativity and spam.

But this is just anecdotal. Could be very different for others. ~10 years back I had my cozy open source corner on Twitter, while everyone complained about Twitter being toxic. It depends.

I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand, I don't personally consider Bluesky to be part of the Fediverse and I wouldn't want to be swamped by their superior numbers.

On the other hand, the more the merrier and it probably wouldn't lead to many more players anyway, judging by the handful of non Lemmy/Piefed servers that currently participate. It might also be a gateway experience into the real, non-corporate Fediverse for some Bluesky users.

I don't particularly want them, but it could open them up to exploring the fediverse more which could be a good thing.

I'm good with whatever you decide.