Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s what I suspect

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• Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Have you heard of bridgy?

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  • Zagorath@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    IMO bridgy is not well designed. The fact that it requires both the follower and the followee to specifically opt in basically makes it DOA. Both Mastodon and BlueSky are completely open and public in terms of post visibility, so bridgy should have been designed to require explicit opt outs from anyone who didn’t want their content bridged.

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    • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Bridgy started without that requirement and it pissed off too many Mastodonians so they reworked it

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      • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well fuck the mastodonians their stupidity is no reason to make everyone else’s experience shitter.

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    • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The fediverse hoa had a bit of a problem with it, ignoring the fact that federation is opt out by default.

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  • knova@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, but it’s not relevant to the point I was making

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