Submitted 9 months ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-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.
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.
Corvid@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
cosmic_slate@dmv.social 9 months ago
Anything remotely useful to connect to other people gets shouted down rather quickly and irrationally.
Look at the foam-mouthed Threads opponents.
I get the feeling the vocal people don’t actually want ActivityPub-based social media to be adopted by anyone, or desperately need a hobby outside of complaint generation.
Carighan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah it’s all “We hate walled gardens” and then a minute late “DO NOT TOUCH MY GARDEN WALLS!!!1!!”.
SineNomineAnonymous@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Adanisi@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
“Foam mouthed Threads opponents”
Threads is quite blatantly just going to throw it’s weight around. It’s not in good faith. They’re already not going to properly implement ActivityPub (which they apparently would do, according to pro-Threads federation people), and so certain content will appear different on Threads and AP.
Smaller services and services which aren’t megacorps are fine. Honestly, BlueSky federation seems like a good thing to me. But we’ll have to see about that.
ginerel@kbin.social 8 months 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.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months 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.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 9 months 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.
Blaze@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Wouldn’t you get defederated fast too?
Corvid@lemmy.world 9 months 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.