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@BendingUnit @snarfed.org I'm just calling out people for being assholes because OP is getting shit on for spending the extra effort to offer a respectful feature...

Thread is full of assholes who think it's impossible and unreasonable to just block an instance and that somehow it's a deep violation of the principles of the fediverse for it to federate, let alone federate by default.

"How dare bridges, a thing that's been around for every single federated platform throughout history, offer an opt-out function, a feature that few if any other bridges offer as the norm is for them to just connect and not care"

And again on the topic of enshittification... you share the whole definition but clearly only read half of it because you don't understand what a two-sided market is... and how this is not a two sided market...

To clarify: a two-sided market is a business with two different sides to it, in most cases with enshittification we're talking about users and advertisers, but it can also be something like a credit card company (cardholders and merchants). Enshittification does not happen between platforms, it happens within a platform that's acting as a two-sided market.

ActivityPub is not a market at all, the vast majority of AP instances are not two-sided markets (I haven't seen any as of yet, but I'm sure there's an ad driven one out there somewhere), the bridge is not a two-sided market, the only two-sided market in this conversation is Bluesky itself.