You are now able to play with your friends even they are in java and you are in bedrock but you need to apply for whitelist submit an whitelist application at our discord so you can already play with your friends
discord:https://discord.gg/zMRXdq7GWj
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you can now play with java and bedrock but its a new world that means the builds were resetted etc
I tried the link but it didn't work