Christopher Trottier (atomicpoet@firefish.city)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 06:19:08 JST

@noondlyt@mastodon.social @fediversenews@venera.social Okay, but I'm referencing everything that creates debate over opt-in/opt-out: bridges, bots, search engines, servers, federation, etc.

Every time there's a debate about what's allowable, someone says, "I didn't opt in".

However, if you're not running a server that blocks everything by default, except for whitelisted servers, you're not opting into anything. By default, when a server "sees" another server, they are federated.