Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges

3 years ago by Sean Tilley to c/fediverse

A libre networking project that's designed to bridge protocol spaces together announced its progress and intentions, and Mastodon users freaked out.

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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Corvid 53 points 3 years ago

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.

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cosmic_slate 24 points 3 years ago

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Carighan 18 points 3 years ago

It’s just embarrassing. This is how we wish to present ourselves as an alternative to corporate social media?

Yeah it's all "We hate walled gardens" and then a minute later "DO NOT TOUCH MY GARDEN WALLS!!!!1!!".

And it's always the same utopian idea that you can somehow both be relevant and big enough to have "enough" activity to be a fun space where to spend free time for discussion and avoid any and all corporate interest in the technology. Instead of trying to get ahead of it and figuring out how to handle of this so that when it inevitably happens you got a clue what to do about it. As if defederating from Threads would even stop Threads from both copying content to them and - if they wanted to - copying their content here. Ridiculous, if they wanted to, they could and they would. That they don't even want to is the far more interesting bit, really.

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SineNomineAnonymous 11 points 3 years ago

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Adanisi 8 points 3 years ago

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ginerel 4 points 3 years ago

I kinda get all the Threads worries and the fact that some people might not be comfortable with Meta collecting their data for advertising. But this is just insane. It just makes me think people are just irrationally angry at everything, and they like being that, instead of informing themselves about what everything does.

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cupcakezealot 12 points 3 years ago

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.

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phillaholic -1 points 3 years ago

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.

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Blaze 5 points 3 years ago

Makes want to fork the project and host a copy of the bridge that’s opt-out.

Wouldn't you get defederated fast too?

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Corvid 26 points 3 years ago

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.

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