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Ryan Barrett
Fediverse! I’ve been building a bridge to Bluesky, and they’re turning on federation soon, which means my bridge will be available soon too. You’ll be able to follow people on Bluesky from here in the fediverse, and vice versa.

Bluesky is a broad network with lots of worthwhile people and conversations! I hope you’ll give it a chance. Only fully public content is bridged, not followers-only, unlisted, or otherwise private posts or profiles. Still, if you want to opt out, I understand. Feel free to DM me at @snarfed@indieweb.social (different account than this one), email me, file a GitHub issue, or put #nobridge in your profile bio.

(Admins, if you decide beforehand that you don’t want your instance to federate with Bluesky over the bridge, the domain to limit or block is bsky.brid.gy.)

A number of us have thought about this for a while now, we’re committed to making it work well for everyone, and we’re very open to feedback. Thanks for listening. Feel free to share broadly.

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snarfed.orgRe-introducing Bridgy Fed | snarfed.orgHi! I'm Ryan. I've been building social network bridges and related tools for over 12 years, including Bridgy, which connects personal web sites and blogs to centralized social networks, and Bridgy Fed, which connects them to the fediverse. I love how decentralized social networks like the fediverse and the IndieWeb let us move away from…
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the roamer

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Indeed. There should be no bridge, and if there is a bridge, then requiring opt-out by people who have nevee heard of that bridge is the opposite of consent.

Tim Erickson, @stpaultim

@the_roamer

This argument about consent is fictional. Anyone can create a server on the Fediverse and everyone on the Fediverse is conntected, without their consent.

Bluesky could create a Mastodon server, any commercial entity can create a server and everyone is linked without consent.

The only way to preserve consent on the Fediverse, is to create a server that is not linked to other servers, in which case you don't have to worry about this bridge.

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Tim Erickson, @stpaultim

@the_roamer

If you really believe in consent, then you should be advocating that no one is connected to any server other than the one they signed up for, unless they opt-in.

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the roamer

@stpaultim

The BS bridge links to a commercial platform outside the Fediverse, rather than to other instances within the Fediverse. People sign up to their Fediverse instance in order to be connected within the Fediverse. Some people in the Fediverse also want to be connected to commercial external platforms, but many very definitely don't. They joined the Fediverse precisely because they want to be free from those platforms. That's where the "opt-out" mechanism violates consent.

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