Notices by shiri (shiri@foggyminds.com), page 4

@tdfischer @qqmrichter ... you did consent though?

If you didn't consent you'd have set up your server as a whitelist instance...

@jeremiah @snarfed.org @sarae The entire fediverse is opt-out structure by default.

If you want opt-in I recommend moving to or setting up a whitelist instance (an instance configured to only federate with instances added to the whitelist, meaning all instances are opt-in by your admin).

@KinkyKobolds @snarfed.org The entire fediverse is opt-out structure by default.

If you want opt-in I recommend moving to or setting up a whitelist instance (an instance configured to only federate with instances added to the whitelist, meaning all instances are opt-in by your admin).

@maegul @shlee @snarfed.org @jbwharris I've seen this for a while, many people on here are highly xenophobic. They found a place for themselves and they now want to close the gates on anyone else joining, seeing "foreigners" (other platforms) as threats rather than a foundational part of how this service works.

On top of that, they often demand ideological purity... it's actually one of the reasons Twitter survives and people use other shitty platforms... because they hopped on here and found only hostility to any way in which their social norms differed from what people considered acceptable.

@BendingUnit @snarfed.org @seahorse passive is a technical, not emotional term. Alternatively an "active" bridge would be akin to a webcrawler, actively pulling in posts whether or not they're requested.

That is also a wild misuse of enshittification. Enshittification is when a platform or product offers an explicit feature and upon achieving market dominance removes that feature.

This is simply someone using the existing features and design of ActivityPub in a way you dislike. This is not being provided by any of the platforms involved and is not something added or changed about the ActivityPub protocol.

This is as much enshittification as complaining about platforms other than Mastodon using ActivityPub.

@tness16 @nizarus @ghazi @snarfed.org this isn't a window, it's an adjoining door. It's letting us and them talk without having to first exit the house, walk around the building and re-enter a completely different house.

And to be clear, the fediverse is both, this bridge is the fediverse in action. What you mean is ActivityPub.

@seahorse @BendingUnit @snarfed.org pro-active statement that doesn't even knowledge of your network: bridges like this are passive, they appear and operate just the same as regular AP instances, only difference is that they're translating the requests on the other end to Bluesky and vice versa.

It's not live yet because it won't function until Bluesky federates, once they do it'll appear as a completely separate Bluesky instance in their network.

Bridges already exist for other networks as well, the only reason this is new is because Bluesky hasn't federated at all before.

As far as how to deal with it, if you don't want to see Bluesky accounts you can block the domain from your user account, or if an admin feels it's unacceptable they can block the domain server-wide. Both just like you can with a regular AP instance.

@jcastroarnaud @snarfed.org it basically is opt in because someone on one side or the other will have to request the content, either one of your users requests a bluesky account or a bluesky user requests your account.

And the assumption is perfectly reasonable given that it's essentially just another instance, as if Bluesky spun up an activitypub endpoint themselves. The opt-out is at least a nice gesture (though unnecessary because blocking a server is an opt out regardless).

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@Gargron @petergleick to clarify in case anyone misses the exact meaning: app development costs money and the official app is more than just an embedded web browser, so it takes dev time (and therefore money) to add those features there as well.

Personally, when I was using Mastodon I wouldn't have minded the official app being a modified embedded browser. Notifications were the only reason I had the app installed really as the mobile web page is extremely similar and has more functionality (because they don't have to re-create functions).

@kudra @noam Friendica is also ActivityPub, just a different design than Mastodon/Calckey/etc. Those are all designed more toward "twitter-clone" layout and Friendica is more "facebook-clone" with the added layer of extensibility and compatibility (ie. server addons that add additional features, allow alternate ways of doing things, and even add support for connecting to other platforms like Tumblr).

"Filtering" isn't a protocol feature, it's just a server feature where it allows you to proactively hide the posts that match the filter.

In Friendica filtering is provided by an addon, the one mentioned by @petrescatraian is called NSFW (it originally only filtered NSFW and later got expanded to a simple configurable filter addon), there's also Advanced Content Filter (which is harder to use but offers more complex filters), and some specialty ones like the Language Filter (it tries to identify languages and hides posts when it's certain enough that you don't speak the language).

Open invite to ask questions since a lot of people here have shown interest.

I'm willing to share my experience with Judaism, notably as a Jewish convert (but don't confuse me for a rabbi), as well as my experience as an autistic (and how the two interact).

I'm very open to questions, even about sensitive topics, but I do ask potentially sensitive questions be put in a content warning for the sake of others.

#jewish #judaism #ActuallyAutistic

Edit: Boosting / Resharing is encouraged

99% of the time "Judeo-Christian" is antisemitic. And yes, I will absolutely elaborate on this if asked.

Credit: @BathysphereHat

@a13cui Thanks for asking!

It's a messy topic and it's late here (I'm a bit sleepy), so feel free to ask follow up questions.

The short version of it is that Judeo-Christian is almost always used in one of two harmful ways:

1) To try and give more credibility and weight to something that is purely Christian by claiming that it's part of Judaism as well when it's not (like the above example, because Judaism explicitly permits abortions)
2) To try and talk about broader groupings of related faiths while ignoring the many other Abrahamic faiths (the proper term, though that one more often hurts the lesser known groups, don't use it unless you also know it applies to groups like the Baháʼí, which I'll admit even I know next to nothing about, but it's valid here because all I'm doing is naming their religious family)

Because many (cough most cough) teach a bastardized form of Judaism through the lens of Christianity, and because that's the only exposure many get to our faith... they get skewed harmful and hurtful ideas about us.

Some highlight examples:
* We don't have an established afterlife (we don't say there isn't one, we just have zero information on it if there is)
* We don't seek "eternal reward", the reward for our faith is being a better person than we were the day before
* We have forgiveness baked into our faith, and no it doesn't require animal sacrifice (it requires you to actually ask the person you wronged...)
* We thoroughly encourage arguing any topic with anyone (right time and place of course), and that includes picking a fight with God if you think they're wrong about something (you have a 99.9% chance of being wrong... but we commend the effort and every once in a while someone wins the argument)
* We have a rule, Pikuach Nefesh, roughly meaning that life is the highest commandment. Your well being takes precedence over your faith, if it would hurt you or others to be observant than you are exempt from that requirement. It's unacceptable to hurt others for your faith, and for yourself it's frowned upon
* We actively discourage conversion, it's allowed but it's not a trivial process. We don't want people to become Jews, we just want people to be better.

@silverwizard @pamela

Nah, I think that tracks...

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