1y ago

Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges

Bridgy Fed made a splash earlier this week by announcing its latest progress in connecting the Fediverse to Bluesky and Nostr. Sadly, not everyone was welcoming.

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.ml

1y ago

wedistribute.org /2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/

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This insane isolationism from the vocal minority will kill ActivityPub. The fact that the author is now backing down and switching to an opt-in system is infuriating. Makes want to fork the project and host a copy of the bridge that’s opt-out.
- the funniest thing is when they accuse bluesky of being a transphobic network when it's literally one of the most pro trans networks around.
  
  It’s naivety all around. You can’t have a completely open anything. These libertarian-esk principals don’t exist in regular society for good reasons.
- Makes want to fork the project and host a copy of the bridge that’s opt-out.
  Wouldn't you get defederated fast too?
  
  That’s exactly the point. Isolationists instances can always defederate bridges if they don’t like them. This outrage is them imposing their will on the rest of the fediverse.
basically just a bunch of the loud minority on mastodon ruining it for everyone else like always
- Mastodon really does seem to rally around braindead takes and misinformation. The culture over there can be hard to stomach sometimes.
  
  I like the little niche I fit into on mastodon, but the Explore tab is as grumpy as Twitter ever was.
  It's a lot like Twitter in that once you follow some good people and get your feed curated you shouldn't look at anything else.
I understand blocking this bridge, but if admins do that, they should block other bridges too, like bird.makeup
- bird.makeup is not a bridge in the proper sense, it only brings content from Twitter to the Fediverse, not the other way around.
  
  It's a crawler that ports things from one platform to another without consent from the user. If either of them are unethical and should be blocked, then both should be blocked.

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