A libre networking project that's designed to bridge protocol spaces together announced its progress and intentions, and Mastodon users freaked out.

Bridgy Fed made a splash earlier this week by announcing its latest progress in connecting the Fediverse to Bluesky and Nostr. Sadly, not everyone was welcoming.

  • cosmic_slate@dmv.socialEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Instead, if Bluesky grows, I can see people move away from it.

    When has that ever worked?

    Major grammatical error this morning for me – I’ve since edited my post. I meant that people will move away from ActivityPub-based software. If someone’s friends all adopt another platform, why stay on one that you aren’t getting connections, especially that’s hostile to letting you connect to the platforms your friends do use?

    The whole idea in the first place was to NOT be corporate. It’s pretty understandable that when those corporations come knocking pretending to be nice, a lot of people want nothing to do with it.

    The company behind a service becomes nearly irrelevant when federation comes into play. In theory, you defederate from servers who are bad actors.

    But at the end of the day, people want to use social media to connect to people. The whole point of federated social media was to get out of walled gardens, yet here we are, building a walled garden.

    • SineNomineAnonymous@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      9 months ago

      The whole point of federated social media was to get out of walled gardens, yet here we are, building a walled garden.

      To an extent yes, but I think it’s pretty easy to see why people are building their own closed communities on the Fediverse. That was the whole “selling point” of it at the beginning. “Not happy with Twitter? Just spin up your own fedi instance where you have your own rules and you can control who joins and who doesn’t”.