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Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges (wedistribute.org)

submitted 7 months ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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@lemmy.world 52 points 7 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 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Anything remotely useful to connect to other people gets shouted down rather quickly and irrationally.

Look at the foam-mouthed Threads opponents.

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

There is simply no reality where everyone decides to switch to Mastodon. Instead, if Bluesky grows, I can see people move away from ActivityPub-based microblogs.

I get the feeling the vocal people don’t actually want ActivityPub-based social media to be adopted by anyone (or just desperately need a hobby outside of complaint generation)

Opponents should use an instance that blocks the bridge if they’re concerned. But nobody should pretend ActivityPub is a private protocol.

[-] ginerel@kbin.social 4 points 7 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.

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