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up.</h2> <div class="single-post-meta post-meta clearfix"><span class="author-meta single-author with-avatars"><span class="meta-item meta-author-wrapper meta-author-25798931"> <span class="meta-author-avatar"> <a href="https://wedistribute.org/author/deadsuperhero/"><img alt='Photo of Sean Tilley' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/298b29f0d64f37d86553e48cb3878512?s=140&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/298b29f0d64f37d86553e48cb3878512?s=280&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-140 photo' height='140' width='140' decoding='async'/></a> </span> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://wedistribute.org/author/deadsuperhero/" class="author-name tie-icon" title="Sean Tilley">Sean Tilley</a></span></span></span><span class="date meta-item tie-icon">February 13, 2024</span><div class="tie-alignright"><span class="meta-comment tie-icon meta-item fa-before">32</span><span class="meta-views meta-item "><span class="tie-icon-fire" aria-hidden="true"></span> 35 </span><span class="meta-reading-time meta-item"><span class="tie-icon-bookmark" aria-hidden="true"></span> 7 minutes read</span> </div></div> </div> </header> <div class="featured-area"><div class="featured-area-inner"><figure class="single-featured-image"><img width="780" height="470" src="https://i0.wp.com/wedistribute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Bukhang_bridge_under_construction_down_view-scaled.jpg?resize=780%2C470&ssl=1" class="attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image" alt="" data-main-img="1" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wedistribute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Bukhang_bridge_under_construction_down_view-scaled.jpg?resize=780%2C470&ssl=1 780w, https://i0.wp.com/wedistribute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Bukhang_bridge_under_construction_down_view-scaled.jpg?zoom=2&resize=780%2C470&ssl=1 1560w, 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data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/wedistribute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Bukhang_bridge_under_construction_down_view-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/wedistribute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Bukhang_bridge_under_construction_down_view-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C585&ssl=1" /> <figcaption class="single-caption-text"> <span class="tie-icon-camera" aria-hidden="true"></span> "Bukhang bridge under construction" by 102orion CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported </figcaption> </figure><div id="datawell"><span class="tags"><a class="post-cat tie-cat-1438" href="https://wedistribute.org/category/people/opinion/">Opinion</a></span><span class="platforms"><div class="platform" style="background-color:"><a href="/platform/bridgy fed"><i class="ds-bridgy fed"></i><p>Bridgy Fed</p></a></div></span></div></div></div> <div class="entry-content entry clearfix"> <p>Recently, Ryan Barrett <a href="https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">re-announced his Bridgy Fed project</a> to the Fediverse. As a service, it’s designed wih one specific goal in mind: to make parts of the decenralized social web that speak different protocols capable of talking to each other natively.</p> <p>For the last few years, Ryan has been hard at work building a sytem that can natively speak IndieWeb, ActivityPub, atproto, and Nostr, and translate interactions back and forth in a manner as close to natural as possible.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-who-is-ryan-barrett">Who is Ryan Barrett?</h2> <p><a href="http://https;//snarfed.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ryan Barrett</a> is a software engineer with a long track record. He co-founded Google App Engine, worked at an early cancer-detection company called Color, then as an engineer for a Climate Tech startup called NCX.</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-wp-embed is-provider-peertube wp-block-embed-peertube"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" title="S1E3: Ryan Barrett Has a Bridge to Sell Us" width="560" height="315" src="https://spectra.video/videos/embed/ab74b490-775c-42ec-8c0b-c2b653b80189#?secret=x747tB6ZsY" data-secret="x747tB6ZsY" frameborder="0"></iframe> </div><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Ryan Barrett on Decentered</figcaption></figure> <p>We actually interviewed Ryan recently for our <em><a href="https://wedistribute.org/series/decentered/">Decentered</a></em> podcast, and we think that it’s the best summary we can provide on what he’s working on, what his thoughts are, and the effort he takes to get the details right. </p> <p>Overall, he has a deep understanding of the space, and wants to provide a tool for anyone to use. He’s also someone who has thought at length about community moderation, and wrote an excellent piece called <em><a href="https://snarfed.org/2024-01-21_moderate-people-not-code">Moderate People, Not Code.</a></em></p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-what-is-bridgy-fed">What is Bridgy Fed?</h2> <p><a href="https://fed.brid.gy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bridgy Fed</a> is an effort to create a multi-protocol communication server that can translate people, content, and interactions back and forth between networks that speak different protocols.</p> <p>For now, it only speaks IndieWeb and ActivityPub, but Ryan has put in a lot of effort into making it speak the AT Protocol (Bluesky) and Nostr as well. Those are due to come in the following weeks, and were a central focus in Ryan’s announcement.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-how-did-the-community-respond">How Did the Community Respond?</h2> <p>To be fair, a sizeable amount of people had good things to say about the new development, and many IndieWeb and Bluesky users were supportive and even excited.</p> <p>Unfortunately, an extremely vocal part of Mastodon expressed a range of negative reactions, going from critiques to insults to vitriol, demanding everything from the developer deleting his project to Ryan leaving the network permanently.</p> <p>Looking through the comments, most negative feedback touches on the following:</p> <ol class="wp-block-list"> <li>This tool violates user consent by being opt-out, rather than opt-in.</li> <li>I don’t want my profile and content showing up on Jack Dosey’s corporate social network.</li> </ol> <p>So, let’s take a moment to unpack this, because it’s not as cut and dry as it appears.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-user-consent-and-the-fediverse">User Consent and the Fediverse</h3> <p>The main controversy people seem to have in the Fediverse boils down to the fact that users have to Opt-Out of the service, rather than Opt-In. But, there’s a few fundamental misunderstandings here:</p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-federation-itself-is-opt-out">Federation itself is Opt-Out</h4> <p>A lot of people responded to Ryan with statements about how Bridgy Fed’s Opt-out nature violated their consent. In some cases, it got really nasty.</p> <p>Here’s the thing: everyone wants to bang on this idea that the Fediverse is based on consent, that users are the ones at the forefront of who they get to connect to, that those decisions are inherently opt-in, and users get to decide everything.</p> <p>But, that’s a myth: the very nature of how federation works in this space is “Open By Default”.</p> <p>To prevent messages and interactions from flowing in and out of a place, users or admins have to activately block a server. What this fundamentally means is that the Fediverse is opt-out by design; connections flow until they don’t.</p> <p>Evan Prodromou, of OStatus and ActivityPub fame, <a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835#issuecomment-1942704597" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">even weighed in on the topic</a>:</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote quote-light is-layout-flow wp-block-quote quote-light-is-layout-flow"> <p>The point of the fediverse is to connect with others, with full control and safety. It’s for making connections between networks of different sizes and implementations.<br><br>We have ample tools to control who can connect with us on the fediverse — the visibility of our posts, deciding who can and can’t follow us, personal blocks, domain blocks, and filters. Extra opt-out features like a profile hashtag, searchability flags, or indexibility flags give even more control.<br><br>With any other network on the fediverse, we allow connections to get started first, and then use these control mechanisms to shape our experience as individuals and as instance communities. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to do that with this bridge, too.</p> <cite>Evan Prodromou</cite></blockquote> <p>That isn’t some random dude, that’s the guy who <em>started the Fediverse</em>, stating that the network being open by default is how things ought to be.</p> <p>If any connections on the Fediverse were opt-in, people would have to opt in to federation on a case-by-case basis. This would seriously hamper the growth of Mastodon, and clashes with its own “open by default” philosophy. Bridgy’s own design values are more in line with what Mastodon does than against it.</p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-bridgy-fed-isn-t-a-crawler">Bridgy Fed isn’t a Crawler</h4> <p>A big part of the drama stems from the fact that people have assumptions about how Bridgy Fed works. Turns out, it’s not a bot that crawls the Fediverse and harvests user data! In fact, it doesn’t index anything, or offer search functionality of any kind. The dude isn’t building a data farm!</p> <p>So then, what is Bridgy Fed doing, exactly?</p> <p>An easy way to grasp this is to look at how interacting with remote stuff works in Mastodon. Let’s say you look up a remote user handle, or a URL to a post, using Mastodon’s search interface. Your server looks up that resource, fetches the data, and renders it locally for you to interact with.</p> <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-bridgy-fed-and-user-privacy">Bridgy Fed and User Privacy</h4> <p>Bridgy Fed is basically doing exactly that, with just one extra step: it’s translating data on another network to something your own system can read, and it can work in two directions. That’s basically it.</p> <p>There are also a couple of aspects of how Bridgy Fed works with user privacy settings and actions:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Bridgy accepts user blocks from ActivityPub, and also federates out edits and deletes. Actor blocks, reports, and domain blocks are recognized, and Bridgy respects Authorized Fetch.</li> <li>Private statuses are <em>not</em> ingested by the bridge, because the other protocols don’t have an equivalent for private conversations.</li> <li>If a user has <code>#NoBridge</code> on their profile or requests exclusion ahead of time, a cross-network lookup will fail for that user automatically, from every network, every time the lookup is attempted.</li> </ul> <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-bridgy-and-multiprotocol-servers">Bridgy and Multiprotocol Servers</h4> <p>Bridging across networks is something of a time-honored tradition in the decentralized social space. In more recent years, the Friendica family tree has acted as a glue between vast parts of the network, getting its hooks into OStatus, Diaspora, and ActivityPub in addition to their own native protocols. </p> <p>While there has been hiccups, dissonance, and occasionally frustration, these kinds of efforts have helped expand the network while keeping it from being a total monoculture. Many projects within the early Fediverse were able to find inspiration from one another, despite taking different approaches to solving various problems.</p> <p>The idea of a public post being translated into another protocol being considered a violation of consent is, frankly, unprecedented. But, this was never about converting a post schema from one JSON form to another, was it? In its basic form, who could possibly care about that?</p> <p>No, this is about your post showing up on *that other network*.</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-misunderstanding-bluesky">Misunderstanding Bluesky</h3> <p>Maybe none of the above details matter to you. Maybe you’ve decided, <em>screw this guy for connecting <strong>my</strong> posts to Jack Dorsey’s fake decentralized network!</em></p> <p>If this is your position, I have a few notes for you!</p> <ol class="wp-block-list"> <li><strong>Jack Dorsey doesn’t own Bluesky!</strong> Aside from a position as a sitting board member in an advisory role, he’s actually not involved. In fact, he deleted his Bluesky account some months ago, and spends almost all of his time hyping Nostr and Bitcoin.</li> <li><strong>Bluesky is a Public Benefit Corporation</strong> – while it’s true that they’re still a corporation, and still have some kind of profit motive, this immediately changes the dynamic from “a platform owned by some rich guy” to “a platform owned by a company”.</li> <li><strong>Federation is coming soon</strong> – the Bluesky team has been actively testing federation and building for it. A lot of people claim that Bluesky doesn’t care about federation, and isn’t going to do it…but, it’s happening soon. If a network can federate, and other people can run their own nodes and services, the network itself isn’t Jack Dorsey’s, or even one entity’s.</li> </ol> <p>We have an upcoming article that’s going to dig deeper into some of the myths about Bluesky. But the main point here is, Bluesky isn’t the Anti-Christ to the Fediverse that people claim that it is. It’s a different approach, by different people. That’s it.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-in-conclusion">In Conclusion</h2> <p>I chose to write this as an Opinion piece, because I don’t expect my point of view to be The Only View That Matters. I think Bridgy Fed is a cool project, and that Ryan doesn’t deserve the hate for building something he’s passionate about in his spare time.</p> <p>I was struck by <a href="https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/111869102972317484">a really remarkable thread</a> by <a href="https://social.polotek.net/@polotek">Marco Rogers</a>, who sorted through his feelings on the situation and identified the “ick” factor in this whole situation. </p> <blockquote data-instance="social.polotek.net" data-post-id="111927445941488311" class="ftf-fediverse-post-embed"> <p>In short, who are you yelling at? Who do you expect to "fix" things for you? Right now people are coming down on the guy who is building the bridge to bluesky. That specific guy. They're yelling at him and telling him to make different decisions to protect their personal privacy. Is that what people think they signed up for with the fediverse? Fighting with other individual humans and trying to force them to do what you want?</p> <p class="ftf-fediverse-post-embed-author"> — Marco Rogers (<a rel="mention" class="u-url mention" href="https://social.polotek.net/@polotek">@<span>polotek</span></a>) <a class="ftf-fediverse-post-embed-link" href="https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/111927445941488311">2024-02-14T02:21:27.923Z</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>This is a decentralized network! Despite efforts to work together, optimize for user safety, and identify actively hostile communities, none of us are in charge. We can bring great initiatives, collaborations, tooling, you name it, but nobody is actually in charge here.</p> <p><strong>I want to be clear about my stance on user consent: </strong>I think it’s a good thing, and worth building for, even in a network where openness is the default. I think serious work needs to be done to better empower end users over privacy, access, and permissions. We can do better, in so many ways, and that future is coming.</p> <p>But throwing a fit over your public data federating to some other network because someone on the other side decided to follow you from there? That’s some peak NIMBY Mastodon HOA bullshit. 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As a service, it's designed wih one specific goal in mind: to make parts of the decenralized social web that speak differen","copyrightYear":"2024","articleSection":"Opinion","articleBody":"\nRecently, Ryan Barrett re-announced his Bridgy Fed project to the Fediverse. As a service, it's designed wih one specific goal in mind: to make parts of the decenralized social web that speak different protocols capable of talking to each other natively.\n\n\n\nFor the last few years, Ryan has been hard at work building a sytem that can natively speak IndieWeb, ActivityPub, atproto, and Nostr, and translate interactions back and forth in a manner as close to natural as possible.\n\n\n\nWho is Ryan Barrett?\n\n\n\nRyan Barrett is a software engineer with a long track record. He co-founded Google App Engine, worked at an early cancer-detection company called Color, then as an engineer for a Climate Tech startup called NCX.\n\n\n\n\nhttps:\/\/spectra.video\/w\/naYXnojUQondH2K7XdsiUM\nRyan Barrett on Decentered\n\n\n\nWe actually interviewed Ryan recently for our Decentered podcast, and we think that it's the best summary we can provide on what he's working on, what his thoughts are, and the effort he takes to get the details right. \n\n\n\nOverall, he has a deep understanding of the space, and wants to provide a tool for anyone to use. He's also someone who has thought at length about community moderation, and wrote an excellent piece called Moderate People, Not Code.\n\n\n\nWhat is Bridgy Fed?\n\n\n\nBridgy Fed is an effort to create a multi-protocol communication server that can translate people, content, and interactions back and forth between networks that speak different protocols.\n\n\n\nFor now, it only speaks IndieWeb and ActivityPub, but Ryan has put in a lot of effort into making it speak the AT Protocol (Bluesky) and Nostr as well. Those are due to come in the following weeks, and were a central focus in Ryan's announcement.\n\n\n\nHow Did the Community Respond?\n\n\n\nTo be fair, a sizeable amount of people had good things to say about the new development, and many IndieWeb and Bluesky users were supportive and even excited.\n\n\n\nUnfortunately, an extremely vocal part of Mastodon expressed a range of negative reactions, going from critiques to insults to vitriol, demanding everything from the developer deleting his project to Ryan leaving the network permanently.\n\n\n\nLooking through the comments, most negative feedback touches on the following:\n\n\n\n\nThis tool violates user consent by being opt-out, rather than opt-in.\n\n\n\nI don't want my profile and content showing up on Jack Dosey's corporate social network.\n\n\n\n\nSo, let's take a moment to unpack this, because it's not as cut and dry as it appears.\n\n\n\nUser Consent and the Fediverse\n\n\n\nThe main controversy people seem to have in the Fediverse boils down to the fact that users have to Opt-Out of the service, rather than Opt-In. But, there's a few fundamental misunderstandings here:\n\n\n\nFederation itself is Opt-Out\n\n\n\nA lot of people responded to Ryan with statements about how Bridgy Fed's Opt-out nature violated their consent. In some cases, it got really nasty.\n\n\n\nHere's the thing: everyone wants to bang on this idea that the Fediverse is based on consent, that users are the ones at the forefront of who they get to connect to, that those decisions are inherently opt-in, and users get to decide everything.\n\n\n\nBut, that's a myth: the very nature of how federation works in this space is \"Open By Default\".\n\n\n\nTo prevent messages and interactions from flowing in and out of a place, users or admins have to activately block a server. What this fundamentally means is that the Fediverse is opt-out by design; connections flow until they don't.\n\n\n\nEvan Prodromou, of OStatus and ActivityPub fame, even weighed in on the topic:\n\n\n\n\nThe point of the fediverse is to connect with others, with full control and safety. It's for making connections between networks of different sizes and implementations.We have ample tools to control who can connect with us on the fediverse -- the visibility of our posts, deciding who can and can't follow us, personal blocks, domain blocks, and filters. Extra opt-out features like a profile hashtag, searchability flags, or indexibility flags give even more control.With any other network on the fediverse, we allow connections to get started first, and then use these control mechanisms to shape our experience as individuals and as instance communities. I think it's perfectly reasonable to do that with this bridge, too.\nEvan Prodromou\n\n\n\nThat isn't some random dude, that's the guy who started the Fediverse, stating that the network being open by default is how things ought to be.\n\n\n\nIf any connections on the Fediverse were opt-in, people would have to opt in to federation on a case-by-case basis. This would seriously hamper the growth of Mastodon, and clashes with its own \"open by default\" philosophy. Bridgy's own design values are more in line with what Mastodon does than against it.\n\n\n\nBridgy Fed isn't a Crawler\n\n\n\nA big part of the drama stems from the fact that people have assumptions about how Bridgy Fed works. Turns out, it's not a bot that crawls the Fediverse and harvests user data! In fact, it doesn't index anything, or offer search functionality of any kind. The dude isn't building a data farm!\n\n\n\nSo then, what is Bridgy Fed doing, exactly?\n\n\n\nAn easy way to grasp this is to look at how interacting with remote stuff works in Mastodon. Let's say you look up a remote user handle, or a URL to a post, using Mastodon's search interface. Your server looks up that resource, fetches the data, and renders it locally for you to interact with.\n\n\n\nBridgy Fed and User Privacy\n\n\n\nBridgy Fed is basically doing exactly that, with just one extra step: it's translating data on another network to something your own system can read, and it can work in two directions. That's basically it.\n\n\n\nThere are also a couple of aspects of how Bridgy Fed works with user privacy settings and actions:\n\n\n\n\nBridgy accepts user blocks from ActivityPub, and also federates out edits and deletes. Actor blocks, reports, and domain blocks are recognized, and Bridgy respects Authorized Fetch.\n\n\n\nPrivate statuses are not ingested by the bridge, because the other protocols don't have an equivalent for private conversations.\n\n\n\nIf a user has #NoBridge on their profile or requests exclusion ahead of time, a cross-network lookup will fail for that user automatically, from every network, every time the lookup is attempted.\n\n\n\n\nBridgy and Multiprotocol Servers\n\n\n\nBridging across networks is something of a time-honored tradition in the decentralized social space. In more recent years, the Friendica family tree has acted as a glue between vast parts of the network, getting its hooks into OStatus, Diaspora, and ActivityPub in addition to their own native protocols. \n\n\n\nWhile there has been hiccups, dissonance, and occasionally frustration, these kinds of efforts have helped expand the network while keeping it from being a total monoculture. Many projects within the early Fediverse were able to find inspiration from one another, despite taking different approaches to solving various problems.\n\n\n\nThe idea of a public post being translated into another protocol being considered a violation of consent is, frankly, unprecedented. But, this was never about converting a post schema from one JSON form to another, was it? In its basic form, who could possibly care about that?\n\n\n\nNo, this is about your post showing up on *that other network*.\n\n\n\nMisunderstanding Bluesky\n\n\n\nMaybe none of the above details matter to you. Maybe you've decided, screw this guy for connecting my posts to Jack Dorsey's fake decentralized network!\n\n\n\nIf this is your position, I have a few notes for you!\n\n\n\n\nJack Dorsey doesn't own Bluesky! Aside from a position as a sitting board member in an advisory role, he's actually not involved. In fact, he deleted his Bluesky account some months ago, and spends almost all of his time hyping Nostr and Bitcoin.\n\n\n\nBluesky is a Public Benefit Corporation - while it's true that they're still a corporation, and still have some kind of profit motive, this immediately changes the dynamic from \"a platform owned by some rich guy\" to \"a platform owned by a company\".\n\n\n\nFederation is coming soon - the Bluesky team has been actively testing federation and building for it. A lot of people claim that Bluesky doesn't care about federation, and isn't going to do it...but, it's happening soon. If a network can federate, and other people can run their own nodes and services, the network itself isn't Jack Dorsey's, or even one entity's.\n\n\n\n\nWe have an upcoming article that's going to dig deeper into some of the myths about Bluesky. But the main point here is, Bluesky isn't the Anti-Christ to the Fediverse that people claim that it is. It's a different approach, by different people. That's it.\n\n\n\nIn Conclusion\n\n\n\nI chose to write this as an Opinion piece, because I don't expect my point of view to be The Only View That Matters. I think Bridgy Fed is a cool project, and that Ryan doesn't deserve the hate for building something he's passionate about in his spare time.\n\n\n\nI was struck by a really remarkable thread by Marco Rogers, who sorted through his feelings on the situation and identified the \"ick\" factor in this whole situation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a decentralized network! Despite efforts to work together, optimize for user safety, and identify actively hostile communities, none of us are in charge. We can bring great initiatives, collaborations, tooling, you name it, but nobody is actually in charge here.\n\n\n\nI want to be clear about my stance on user consent: I think it's a good thing, and worth building for, even in a network where openness is the default. I think serious work needs to be done to better empower end users over privacy, access, and permissions. We can do better, in so many ways, and that future is coming.\n\n\n\nBut throwing a fit over your public data federating to some other network because someone on the other side decided to follow you from there? That's some peak NIMBY Mastodon HOA bullshit. 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class="comment-list"> <li id="comment-1449" class="comment even thread-even depth-1 has-avatar activitypub-comment"> <article id="div-comment-1449" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://libranet.de/photo/profile/petrescatraian.jpeg?ts=1705267535' srcset='https://libranet.de/photo/profile/petrescatraian.jpeg?ts=1705267535 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo avatar-default avatar-activitypub u-photo' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://libranet.de/profile/petrescatraian" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">CÄƒtÄƒ</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1065-cc76-ea4f-b7b058734405"><time datetime="2024-02-14T01:16:47-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 1:16 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p><a href="https://wedistribute.org/@news" rel="ugc">@news</a> bridgyfed would be really useful to diaspora* since it doesn’t support AP natively at all.</p> <p><a href="https://social.polotek.net/users/polotek" rel="nofollow ugc">@polotek</a></p> </div> <div class="activitypub-remote-reply" data-attrs="{"selectedComment":"https:\/\/libranet.de\/objects\/0b6b25a8-1065-cc76-ea4f-b7b058734405","commentId":"1449"}"></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1465" class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1465" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6c0f4b052a2db1aaeb2b2608f4484a76?s=70&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6c0f4b052a2db1aaeb2b2608f4484a76?s=140&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Sam</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/#comment-1465"><time datetime="2024-02-14T03:11:37-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 3:11 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>A very well written and well considered piece. We live in societies in which weâ€™re not brought up to think critically i.e. investigate things and take time to make considered responses. Until the day where critical thinking is put at the heart of education weâ€™re always going to find that the majority of people naturally respond the way a lot of people have done here. Itâ€™s just the stage weâ€™re at in our evolution, sadly. Until then:</p> <p>â€œIf you can keep your head when all about you<br /> Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,<br /> If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br /> But make allowance for their doubting too;<br /> If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<br /> Or being lied about, donâ€™t deal in lies,<br /> Or being hated, donâ€™t give way to hating,<br /> And yet donâ€™t look too good, nor talk too wise.â€<br /> â€“ Excerpt from Rudyard Kiplingâ€™s â€˜Ifâ€™.</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1465" data-commentid="1465" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1465" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Sam" aria-label="Reply to Sam">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1468" class="comment even thread-even depth-1 parent has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1468" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0431514bfe79c1f11f936adfcb31d6a4?s=70&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0431514bfe79c1f11f936adfcb31d6a4?s=140&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">Sally</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/#comment-1468"><time datetime="2024-02-14T06:11:55-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 6:11 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Just wondering if you think there are any people out there who</p> <p>-prefer the bridge to be opt-in and </p> <p>-dislike Bluesky and</p> <p>-know what theyâ€™re talking about</p> <p>If so, what would you say to them?</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1468" data-commentid="1468" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1468" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Sally" aria-label="Reply to Sally">Reply</a></div> </article> <ol class="children"> <li id="comment-1526" class="comment odd alt depth-2 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1526" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e6e33cc18fc3e24b5b12e0dc747234ed?s=70&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e6e33cc18fc3e24b5b12e0dc747234ed?s=140&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">Damon</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/#comment-1526"><time datetime="2024-02-16T07:38:14-07:00">February 16, 2024 at 7:38 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>I would say that unless they are making it explicitly clear that they dislike Bluesky for true reasons and reasons that do not exist amongst fedi then I would say their opinion comes from a fair and reasonable position. But, if there’s lies in any form then I would say they are liars and hypocrites who’s opinions can’t be trusted. I do not trust many Right Wing folks due to their hypocrisy and lies why would I treat anyone else any different?</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1526" data-commentid="1526" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1526" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Damon" aria-label="Reply to Damon">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> </ol> </li> <li id="comment-1495" class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1495" class="comment-body h-cite p-comment"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard h-card u-author"> <img alt='' src='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/110/627/169/567/417/827/original/168a6a8d997281dd.jpeg' srcset='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/110/627/169/567/417/827/original/168a6a8d997281dd.jpeg 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo local-avatar' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">BeAware :veriweed:</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span><small> @ <cite><a href="https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/111930121813301651">social.beaware.live</a></cite></small> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a class="u-url" href="https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/111930121813301651"><time class="dt-published" datetime="2024-02-14T06:41:58-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 6:41 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content e-content p-name"> <p><span><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>weirdwriter</span></a></span> what in this article says that they don’t know how the Fediverse works? I assure you, <span><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>Damon</span></a></span> knows how the Fediverse works…ðŸ¤·â€â™‚ï¸</p> <p><a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/" rel="ugc"></a></p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1495" data-commentid="1495" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1495" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to BeAware :veriweed:" aria-label="Reply to BeAware :veriweed:">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1470" class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1470" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6d174566ade02747f317183d07e938de?s=70&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6d174566ade02747f317183d07e938de?s=140&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">George E.</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/#comment-1470"><time datetime="2024-02-14T07:36:05-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 7:36 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Great post, Sean. And highlights just how toxic and hateful the vocal minority can be sometimes. I think I’m beginning to understand why Mastodon is as crappy as it is. Because it’s easier to give-in to the vocal minority than it is to fight it. Just look at how the very small, but very vocal “Moms for Liberty” have screwed up school systems from coast to coast.<br /> Back to the fedi, we’re seeing people act this way because people don’t like change, and they’re afraid of the unknown.</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1470" data-commentid="1470" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1470" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to George E." aria-label="Reply to George E.">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1486" class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1486" class="comment-body h-cite p-comment"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard h-card u-author"> <img alt='' src='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/587/262/010/482/822/original/dc460546c4882296.jpeg' srcset='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/587/262/010/482/822/original/dc460546c4882296.jpeg 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo local-avatar' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Damon</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span><small> @ <cite><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon/111930588608001490">mozilla.social</a></cite></small> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a class="u-url" href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon/111930588608001490"><time class="dt-published" datetime="2024-02-14T08:40:41-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 8:40 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content e-content p-name"> <p><span><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>weirdwriter</span></a></span> <span><a href="https://mspsocial.net/@bright_helpings" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>bright_helpings</span></a></span> what do you mean again? Sean has been a part of the Fedi for 15 years. I love how neither one of you are specific about anything . State what facts Sean has wrong?</p> <p><a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/" rel="ugc"></a></p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1486" data-commentid="1486" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1486" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Damon" aria-label="Reply to Damon">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1494" class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1494" class="comment-body h-cite p-comment"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard h-card u-author"> <img alt='' src='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/587/262/010/482/822/original/dc460546c4882296.jpeg' srcset='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/587/262/010/482/822/original/dc460546c4882296.jpeg 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo local-avatar' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Damon</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span><small> @ <cite><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon/111930593416850987">mozilla.social</a></cite></small> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a class="u-url" href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon/111930593416850987"><time class="dt-published" datetime="2024-02-14T08:41:54-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 8:41 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content e-content p-name"> <p><span><a href="https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>BeAware</span></a></span> <span><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>weirdwriter</span></a></span> Id love to know theyâ€™re cowardly being obtuse. I canâ€™t and donâ€™t respect people like that.</p> <p><a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/" rel="ugc"></a></p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1494" data-commentid="1494" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1494" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Damon" aria-label="Reply to Damon">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1490" class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1490" class="comment-body h-cite p-comment"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard h-card u-author"> <img alt='' src='https://tweesecake.social/avatars/original/missing.png' srcset='https://tweesecake.social/avatars/original/missing.png 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo local-avatar' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Robert Kingett on hiatus</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span><small> @ <cite><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/111930633554741018">tweesecake.social</a></cite></small> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a class="u-url" href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/111930633554741018"><time class="dt-published" datetime="2024-02-14T08:52:07-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 8:52 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content e-content p-name"> <p><span><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon" rel="nofollow ugc">@<span>Damon</span></a></span> <span><a href="https://mspsocial.net/@bright_helpings" rel="nofollow ugc">@<span>bright_helpings</span></a></span> I will send my own opinion peace, but itâ€™s not a technical inaccuracy, itâ€™s a cultural inaccuracy.</p> <p><a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/" rel="ugc"></a></p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1490" data-commentid="1490" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1490" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Robert Kingett on hiatus" aria-label="Reply to Robert Kingett on hiatus">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1501" class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1501" class="comment-body h-cite p-comment"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard h-card u-author"> <img alt='' src='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/587/262/010/482/822/original/dc460546c4882296.jpeg' srcset='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/587/262/010/482/822/original/dc460546c4882296.jpeg 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo local-avatar' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Damon</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span><small> @ <cite><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon/111930686465080724">mozilla.social</a></cite></small> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a class="u-url" href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon/111930686465080724"><time class="dt-published" datetime="2024-02-14T09:05:34-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 9:05 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content e-content p-name"> <p><span><a href="https://mspsocial.net/@bright_helpings" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>bright_helpings</span></a></span> <span><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>weirdwriter</span></a></span> oh god is Sean again is specific? My god youâ€™re not a serious person</p> <p><a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/" rel="ugc"></a></p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1501" data-commentid="1501" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1501" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Damon" aria-label="Reply to Damon">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1488" class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1488" class="comment-body h-cite p-comment"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard h-card u-author"> <img alt='' src='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/587/262/010/482/822/original/dc460546c4882296.jpeg' srcset='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/587/262/010/482/822/original/dc460546c4882296.jpeg 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo local-avatar' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Damon</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span><small> @ <cite><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon/111930692980074915">mozilla.social</a></cite></small> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a class="u-url" href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon/111930692980074915"><time class="dt-published" datetime="2024-02-14T09:07:13-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 9:07 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content e-content p-name"> <p><span><a href="https://mspsocial.net/@bright_helpings" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>bright_helpings</span></a></span> <span><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>weirdwriter</span></a></span> yet you make criticism. Youâ€™re gross and typical right wing, Trumpian behaviour. I thought that was for Twitter ? Making random claims and then â€œdo your own researchâ€ is peak MAGA behaviour</p> <p><a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/" rel="ugc"></a></p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1488" data-commentid="1488" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1488" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Damon" aria-label="Reply to Damon">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1500" class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1500" class="comment-body h-cite p-comment"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard h-card u-author"> <img alt='' src='https://tweesecake.social/avatars/original/missing.png' srcset='https://tweesecake.social/avatars/original/missing.png 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo local-avatar' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Robert Kingett on hiatus</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span><small> @ <cite><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/111930737120656299">tweesecake.social</a></cite></small> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a class="u-url" href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/111930737120656299"><time class="dt-published" datetime="2024-02-14T09:18:27-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 9:18 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content e-content p-name"> <p><span><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon" rel="nofollow ugc">@<span>Damon</span></a></span> <span><a href="https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware" rel="nofollow ugc">@<span>BeAware</span></a></span> You have a point. It just appeared to be a different tone for me.</p> <p><a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/" rel="ugc"></a></p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1500" data-commentid="1500" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1500" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Robert Kingett on hiatus" aria-label="Reply to Robert Kingett on hiatus">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1478" class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1478" class="comment-body h-cite p-comment"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard h-card u-author"> <img alt='' src='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/587/262/010/482/822/original/dc460546c4882296.jpeg' srcset='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/587/262/010/482/822/original/dc460546c4882296.jpeg 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo local-avatar' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Damon</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span><small> @ <cite><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon/111930781258476508">mozilla.social</a></cite></small> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a class="u-url" href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon/111930781258476508"><time class="dt-published" datetime="2024-02-14T09:29:40-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 9:29 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content e-content p-name"> <p><span><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>weirdwriter</span></a></span> <span><a href="https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>BeAware</span></a></span> I understand. But, Sean is a lovely person and would gladly clarify <span><a href="https://mozilla.social/@deadsuperhero" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>deadsuperhero</span></a></span></p> <p><a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/" rel="ugc"></a></p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1478" data-commentid="1478" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1478" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Damon" aria-label="Reply to Damon">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1481" class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1481" class="comment-body h-cite p-comment"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard h-card u-author"> <img alt='' src='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/722/052/202/379/907/original/b3d21d8d8e37445b.jpg' srcset='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/722/052/202/379/907/original/b3d21d8d8e37445b.jpg 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo local-avatar' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://masto.es/@berniethewordsmith" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Bernie the Wordsmith</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span><small> @ <cite><a href="https://masto.es/@berniethewordsmith/111930970228603519">masto.es</a></cite></small> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a class="u-url" href="https://masto.es/@berniethewordsmith/111930970228603519"><time class="dt-published" datetime="2024-02-14T10:17:44-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 10:17 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content e-content p-name"> <p><span><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>Damon</span></a></span> <span><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>weirdwriter</span></a></span> <span><a href="https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>BeAware</span></a></span> Paging <span><a href="https://indieweb.social/@jdp23" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>jdp23</span></a></span> here because they may have good insight about what’s behind the concern and hesitation among LGBTQ folk in Mastodon regarding other networks bridging with them</p> <p><a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/" rel="ugc"></a></p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1481" data-commentid="1481" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1481" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Bernie the Wordsmith" aria-label="Reply to Bernie the Wordsmith">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1483" class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 parent has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1483" class="comment-body h-cite p-comment"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard h-card u-author"> <img alt='' src='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/587/262/010/482/822/original/dc460546c4882296.jpeg' srcset='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/587/262/010/482/822/original/dc460546c4882296.jpeg 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo local-avatar' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Damon</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span><small> @ <cite><a href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon/111931037630877054">mozilla.social</a></cite></small> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a class="u-url" href="https://mozilla.social/@Damon/111931037630877054"><time class="dt-published" datetime="2024-02-14T10:34:52-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 10:34 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content e-content p-name"> <p><span><a href="https://masto.es/@berniethewordsmith" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>berniethewordsmith</span></a></span> <span><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>weirdwriter</span></a></span> <span><a href="https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>BeAware</span></a></span> <span><a href="https://indieweb.social/@jdp23" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>jdp23</span></a></span> Oh, I thought you had other points. There’s a ton of LGBTQ+ folk that are on Bluesky, many that have discussed they’d never come to fedi due to the culture</p> <p><a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/" rel="ugc"></a></p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1483" data-commentid="1483" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1483" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Damon" aria-label="Reply to Damon">Reply</a></div> </article> <ol class="children"> <li id="comment-1615" class="comment odd alt depth-2 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1615" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1ef25eb17b6a81e6a33f067ca7aeb188?s=70&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1ef25eb17b6a81e6a33f067ca7aeb188?s=140&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">PATHFINDER</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/#comment-1615"><time datetime="2024-02-22T22:24:22-07:00">February 22, 2024 at 10:24 pm</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Yeah, Iâ€™m LGBTQ+ and part of a marginalised group too. I really dislike Fediâ€™s culture due to how dramatic and explosive it is, even though I use it since I like owning my identity and because my particular maginalised group is small enough that it only really exists on some parts of Fedi. I just try to ignore the drama.</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1615" data-commentid="1615" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1615" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to PATHFINDER" aria-label="Reply to PATHFINDER">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> </ol> </li> <li id="comment-1493" class="comment even thread-even depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1493" class="comment-body h-cite p-comment"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard h-card u-author"> <img alt='' src='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/798/157/077/890/522/original/830a6a61f26b3015.png' srcset='https://cdn.tweesecake.social/cache/accounts/avatars/111/798/157/077/890/522/original/830a6a61f26b3015.png 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo local-avatar' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://mozilla.social/@deadsuperhero" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Sean Tilley</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span><small> @ <cite><a href="https://mozilla.social/@deadsuperhero/111931300785373285">mozilla.social</a></cite></small> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a class="u-url" href="https://mozilla.social/@deadsuperhero/111931300785373285"><time class="dt-published" datetime="2024-02-14T11:41:48-07:00">February 14, 2024 at 11:41 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content e-content p-name"> <p><span><a href="https://mspsocial.net/@bright_helpings" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>bright_helpings</span></a></span> <span><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">@<span>weirdwriter</span></a></span> Sean Tilley is the worst! I hate that guy!</p> <p><a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/" rel="ugc"></a></p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1493" data-commentid="1493" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1493" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Sean Tilley" aria-label="Reply to Sean Tilley">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1540" class="pingback odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 has-avatar"> <div class="comment-body"> Pingback: <a href="https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/mastodon-dated-and-broken-by-design/" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Mastodon: Dated and broken by design – Pawlicker's Pleroma Experiment Blog</a> </div> </li> <li id="comment-1657" class="comment even thread-even depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1657" class="comment-body h-cite p-comment"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard h-card u-author"> <img alt='' src='https://toolsforthought.social/system/accounts/avatars/111/243/333/718/206/142/original/981b3a1506297b5f.png' srcset='https://toolsforthought.social/system/accounts/avatars/111/243/333/718/206/142/original/981b3a1506297b5f.png 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo local-avatar' height='70' width='70' onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';this.srcset='https://wedistribute.org/wp-content/plugins/webmention/assets/img/mm.jpg';" loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://toolsforthought.social/@boris" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Boris Mann</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span><small> @ <cite><a href="https://toolsforthought.social/@boris/111993798421688237">toolsforthought.social</a></cite></small> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a class="u-url" href="https://toolsforthought.social/@boris/111993798421688237"><time class="dt-published" datetime="2024-02-25T12:41:03-07:00">February 25, 2024 at 12:41 pm</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content e-content p-name"> <p>@hexaheximal supposed Bluesky toxicity is the same as ActivityPub server toxicity â€” which really is individual users.</p> <p>Blocking is available to moderators and users. There will be more servers, software and users. Open protocols is what enable this.</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1657" data-commentid="1657" data-postid="4765" data-belowelement="div-comment-1657" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Boris Mann" aria-label="Reply to Boris Mann">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-1658" class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 has-avatar"> <article id="div-comment-1658" class="comment-body h-cite p-comment"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard h-card u-author"> <img alt='' src='https://toolsforthought.social/system/cache/accounts/avatars/111/562/990/363/676/031/original/902874953f2ff8d4.gif' srcset='https://toolsforthought.social/system/cache/accounts/avatars/111/562/990/363/676/031/original/902874953f2ff8d4.gif 2x' class='avatar avatar-70 photo local-avatar' height='70' width='70' 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