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   hallenbeck (hallenbeck@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 04:42:20 JST hallenbeck

   @spurs Bit sad to say it looks like Bluesky is gaining loads of new #coys people while not many joining Mastodon or the wider fediverse, and not many taking the simple step of following https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy to join with other #fediverse networks. Not sure what we can do to improve the situation. It's a real shame the community got fragmented by competing networks. 😕

   #COYS #FediFC

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 04:42:19 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @hallenbeck yep....that's what we get for allowing the mass misinformation across Fedi when BridgyFed was announced regarding "opt-in" crap.

     Any implementation that's "opt-in" is dead at the start because we can't teach everyone a lesson. That's not how this technology is supposed to work.

     If every new implementation starts becoming opt-in, Fedi dies.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 04:54:37 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • Patrick

     @ppb1701 @hallenbeck yep, there's no such thing as "opt-in" in the AP spec.

     That's not how these platforms work.

     It's opt-out to the core of the protocol.

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     Patrick (ppb1701@ppb.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 04:54:39 JST Patrick

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     • BeAware :fediverse:

     @hallenbeck @spurs @BeAware Sadly a lot of people freaked out when this was just starting and it was turned to opt-in. There is a reason companies typically opt users in to something that benefits the company instead of giving them the choice. Most people wont take time to manually do it or change it off the setting. In this case it was even stranger as everything is sent across activitypub UNLESS the user (or server) has changed the privacy setting or how it is federating.