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@chronohart @snarfed.org they're not being ignored, they're just living in an imaginary world.

Here's a simpler way to put it: if this makes anyone feel less safe, then the safety they felt was an ILLUSION, that safety was a lie. Shutting down this one developer doesn't bring back that safety, it just preserves the illusion.

The fediverse is and never was the place to avoid being "on" the other networks. The entire model of it is to be on everything.

If you want the features you claim are being violated you need to be on a whitelist server (a server configured to only federate with pre-approved other servers).

If you joined the fediverse to "not be on Bluesky" then you didn't remotely understand what you were joining. That's not a fault on this bridge, that's a fault on you and whomever might have told you otherwise.

The fediverse is not some enclave, it's not some isolated space, it never will be.

And the fediverse is not safe, never was meant to be a safe place and again never will be.

And why? Because the first and central premise of the entire fediverse is being open. It's safety is about always having an escape hatch... you're safer from horrible admins because you can always jump to another instance and more-or-less stay in touch with everyone... unlike the isolated networks of Twitter or Facebook where you can't move without losing connection to everyone.

And anyone who knows more anything about the history and point of federation knows that bridges are unavoidable and accepted either enthusiastically or reluctantly.

The whole situation here is that you're joining a space and getting upset at the people in that space for doing entirely normal things because you had ideas in your head about what that space was and those entirely normal things violated your imagined ideas.