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When 20 devs say "well I have no experience with the social part of this, and actually I'm privileged enough that I wouldn't suffer from consequences" do the thing, and people loudly complain, and then the 21st dev comes and says the same thing, I kinda think we can be a bit mad. As a treat.
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 @adriano @jakelazaroff @polotek @anildash @janl I don’t think the dev is pushing work to you, I think the protocol is. It seems like federation is default opt-out, so every new instance is work for an admin  @adriano @jakelazaroff @anildash @janl right protecting your own personal privacy should definitely be somebody else's work. @polotek @jakelazaroff @anildash @janl I shouldn't have to explain why somebody coming from a different network with the intent to monetize what I write without my permission and making me do extra work to avoid that is, yes, somebody else pushing work on me that I didn't want. But here we are. If they wanted to not have a problem with the protocol, they could have made something *with* activityPub. Granted, people wouldn't have liked the monetization bit either, but. @adriano @jakelazaroff @anildash @janl um, it is made with ActivityPub. The amount of people who don't actually understand what's happening is pretty wild. Which is entirely my point. You are creating work for other people by not understanding anything about how the system you chose actually works. And then getting mad at them for using it as intended.  @polotek @adriano @jakelazaroff @anildash The irony is that Ryan is asking permission, not forgiveness. He hasn't started running a bridge yet. If he had, likely no-one would notice anyway - did you notice that his original post was bridged from his website?  @adriano @polotek @jakelazaroff @anildash I’m okay to be dried from this. @janl @adriano @jakelazaroff @anildash sorry Jan. I should stop provoking people. Nobody actually understands my point anyway. @adriano @polotek i mean, yeah, that’s the *entire point of activitypub*: anyone can spin up a server that can communicate with yours. it would be great if mastodon had a way to proactively block servers that identified as bridges or search services or something. but getting mad at this one dude for building a server you don’t like is not gonna fix anything. @adriano @jakelazaroff @polotek I was under the impression that our admins could block BS (I assume by blocking the bridge domain). |
@polotek @anildash @janl Correct me if I'm wrong, but "the tools actually available to protect ourselves from unwanted federation" are, in this particular case, putting a hashtag on my profile and hoping, or *sending this dude a dm/email*. Or to go ask bluesky to kindly not do that.