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allen099@mastodon.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Snowshadow@mastodon.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @allen099 @snarfed.org @Gargron I sent a message to snarfed telling him what I thought of his outrageous "opt-out" option ...what a way to pad the numbers count for bluesky!
  Who would want to deal with an organization that has the audacity to pull this stunt!

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  • allen099@mastodon.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @Snowshadow @Gargron Agree! Though for me, part of the appeal of being in an open world (Fediverse) is not having someone sign me up for something I didn’t ask for. It’s a simple as that.

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    • proximacentauri@mstdn.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @allen099 @Snowshadow @Gargron Mastodon federates by default to all new instances. Bluesky Bridge is only a new instance.

      Your problem is with Mastodon, not with this bridge.

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      • Snowshadow@mastodon.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        @proximacentauri @allen099 @Gargron Maybe...
        What irritates me is that I left social media for quite a period of time b/c I was fed up with the nonsense going on in corp. owned social media platforms. So I found out about fediverse and now threads is here and bluesky.
        That's fine...I just don't want to see any of it or interact with those instances and I have blocked them...I don't want that toxic element in my TL.

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      • allen099@mastodon.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        @proximacentauri @Snowshadow @Gargron Which is why I asked @Gargron to opt out.

        And, being ok with seeing several problems in one scenario, I also don’t like being opted into something I didn’t ask for.

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    • Snowshadow@mastodon.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @allen099 That is my point. That is why I am outraged. I am still swearing every time I think about it. Unbelievable the nerve!!
      The Arrogance!!

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      • shiri@foggyminds.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        @Snowshadow @allen099 you are not being signed up for anything with this, it's just another instance translating between the two protocols and all normal tools still apply.

        The arrogance is thinking you can make public posts on a federate platform and dictate how they federate.

        I'll also note that this isn't a corporate person doing this, it's a private individual. Bluesky has promised to federate under it's own protocol since it's beginning, once it does so you will see many instances on the bluesky protocol much the same as we're talking on the activitypub protocol, this bridge just connects the two protocols and a lot of people are interested in implementing such tools because that's the whole point of federation.

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