Notices by Evan Minto (vamptvo@mastodon.social)

@cwebber This is excellent, thank you for writing it up. It roughly matches my gut feeling from the little I knew about BlueSky's architecture, but of course with much more expertise and detail

@Gargron Thank you and every contributor for all the work you do to keep Mastodon going (and growing!)

@cwebber We call it a "fediverse" because everyone on here is a fed, hope this helps

@evan This is better than Biden, at least on a rhetorical level, but I don't see how it's functionally any different. By including all the qualifiers, it's easy enough to say "well yeah we want the genocide to end, but only when the hostages are home/Hamas is destroyed," which allows Israel to keep going indefinitely.

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@cwebber @clacke @evan @erincandescent @tsyesika @rhiaro So proud to have been a small part of this, and it's amazing how much farther other folks like @Gargron took it after me!

@snarfed.org To be entirely honest, I think if you have buy-in from major Mastodon instances like dot social, I would prefer you simply stick with opt-out and let the people freaking out about this defederate from you. They want their own small walled garden so they can have it. Good riddance.

@snarfed.org I could live with this but it seems unnecessarily obtuse. We don't expect new Mastodon instances to do this and I don't understand why your bridge would need to. If people want to pre-approve followers there's already a setting for that (which it sounds like you'd support in your bridge anyway).

@stefan I see you're on a different instance from me. Did you "opt out" of being on mastodon.social? Since you didn't sign up for my instance, should the default be that we can't talk to each other?

@stefan "Corporate" isn't a distinction with any meaning in the actual tech. You can of course choose to block instances that meet your own standard of "corporate" (including the many existing commercial ActivityPub instances already out there, and this bridge). But you're on a federated social network, so by definition you're already federating with any software that uses the same protocol, including ones that may not share your values.

@stefan That's my point, you didn't opt out. You just used ActivityPub while BlueSky used a different protocol. They're going to start speaking the same language, so you'll now have a choice about whether to federate with them, exactly like you do when a new Mastodon instance comes online. Don't like it? Block and move on.

@stefan I don't understand how this is functionally different from BlueSky supporting ActivityPub, but also I can tell from your opinion on this that if they DID you would be having the same reaction to that. You would block BlueSky, right? So again, block the bridge and move on with your life.

@HistoPol @shiri Very concerning indeed. I would suggest logging off and going outside if this is a concern for you.

@shiri This is increasingly how I'm inclined to treat these crybullies. Ryan's doing really important work to move the Fediverse forward and these are people who just get off on abusing strangers online. They'll never be satisfied.

@snarfed.org Just want to say thank you for all your work on this! I'm on BlueSky as well but not comfortable with their VC backing. It's going to be nice to be able to interact with folks on there from my Mastodon account!

@Gargron Does "the network" in this stat include non-Mastodon instances?