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   Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:02:27 JST Jer Warren

   I wish bridgyfed had its own privacy controls when bridging content to Bluesky.
   
   I completely get mirroring the privacy settings of the account being bridged, but I'd really like to be able to set the bridge to require approval from followers, because I really only use bridgyfed so that a couple people there can connect with me.
   
   I don't really want what I post here to be discoverable there, because I don't actually want to be publishing there in the first place.

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     Tim W (admin (and human)) (tim@union.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:02:24 JST Tim W (admin (and human))

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     @nyquildotorg the question is: are the public APIs sufficient to do that / does software to do that yourself exist to make that sufficiently easy, vs. the bridge?

     I mean, I guess the existence of the bridge suggests the APIs are there, so it's more a question of self-bridging. I'd imagine Bridgy might do that at some point if enough people want it / someone contributes the code?

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     Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:02:26 JST Jer Warren

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     Hm. Maybe I should have made a private activitypub account that mirrors all my posts and use that to bridge to other networks instead. That doesn't solve the problem of replies/interactions, but it does limit participation in someone's for profit business at least a little.

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     Tim W (admin (and human)) (tim@union.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:18:22 JST Tim W (admin (and human))

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     @nyquildotorg you've obviously given this thought, which doesn't particularly surprise me, sorry for any potential 'splaining!

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     Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:18:23 JST Jer Warren

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     • Tim W (admin (and human))

     @tim I understand why bridgyfed doesn't have the functionality, and there are really two reasons for it. The first is that the entire concept of bridging a publicly available account to a private one is niche and weird, and the other is the extra logic, UI and resources to handle it would really only be benefitting weirdos like me

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     Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:18:24 JST Jer Warren

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     • Tim W (admin (and human))

     @tim the API does allow it, and there may be tools, but I would have probably implemented the public-to-private ActivityPub mirrorer myself. Still might. Then I would plug tha private copy into bridgyfed because I have no interest in doing that part of the process.

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     Tim W (admin (and human)) (tim@union.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:33:12 JST Tim W (admin (and human))

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     @nyquildotorg ick, yeah, I don't see a good way to avoid your content being there for whatever purposes bsky itself might choose to use it for.

     Technically Bridgy Fed doesn't send anything over (unless it tags a bsky user) unless someone follows you, but the whole point is for at least one person to follow you, at which point everything would go over, and then, the problem you describe.

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     Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:33:13 JST Jer Warren

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     • Tim W (admin (and human))

     @tim actually, I just realized a potential problem that might prevent it. ActivityPub's privacy permissions are woefully inadequate. There is an account-level permission that says whether I have to approve people from following, and post-level permissions for who is allowed to see them. The post permissions are "only people who follow me" or "only the one person I mention."
     
     My mirrored account would need to be set to "only people I allow can follow me" and the posts would need to be set to "only people who follow me can see them," but the way bridgyfed works is that bridgyfed itself has to follow me. Meaning everything I post does make it into Bluesky's network, and it's up to Bluesky whether they show that content to Bluesky users or not.
     
     Even if there are only two users who are shown the content, the content can still be used for advertising profiling purposes on the users who do see them.

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     Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:33:14 JST Jer Warren

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     • Tim W (admin (and human))

     @tim no, all good, I didn't see it as anything other than discussion!