I spent way too much time this past week being annoyed and disappointed at the hate thrown at Bridgy Fed developer Ryan Barrett, connecting ActivityPub to Bluesky’s ATProtocol.
Sean Tilley has a great opinion piece on We Distribute that does a good job of summarizing.
#ActivityPub #ATProtocol #Bluesky #BridgyFed https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/
@boris Again. This is looking at it the wrong way.
This is not a technical problem. It's a social problem.
Saying "just block the bridge if you care" is stupid. By the time you do that the damage of bluesky toxicity will probably already be done.
@hexaheximal Oh it is a social problem, but just block the bridge is the social solution.
The technical side is how that block would be put in place, but the decision to block is the social decision that you might decide to adopt if you care about this.
And it all goes back to the original social decision of putting content into a platform that is so focused on broadcasting content everywhere, including to bridges like this.
If you don't want content going to places like BlueSky, then your first question at social decision was to participate in a platform that would do just that sort of thing. Choosing to block the bridge is just the social decision to mitigate fallout from that first social decision of yours
@volkris @boris "By the time you do that the damage of bluesky toxicity will probably already be done."