Figure I should post this here as well.
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@evan I understand your hostility here and, but honestly, find it a bit off-putting.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Mike Masnick ✅ last edited by [email protected]
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UPDATE: I said here that I don't care about hurting Mike's feelings. That's neither true nor kind, and I shouldn't have said it. I respect him a lot as a thinker and as a person.
Unfortunately I think we have some diametrically opposed ideas on this topic and there might not be an easy middle ground to find.
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@evan there are ways to disagree without being disagreeable. You know that I've supported your work and your mission.
I'm not asking you to support mine.
But it is a choice to be antagonistic. But, fair enough, you have made it clear I am not welcome here. I am out.
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@mmasnick @mmasnick.bsky.social
I do believe that you do good work and I think you have the best interests of the Internet at heart. I disagree with your conclusions but I believe in your intentions.
I think you should re-read my post, and see whether it’s actively hostile, or just telling you something you don’t want to hear.
Regardless, please take my request about patents to heart. I think you are in a unique position to do some good on that front.
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@mmasnick I'm bridged, and even following your Bluesky account from here (thank you)! But the number of Bluesky users I can follow is miniscule. Asking people to follow a bridging account so I can follow them is hardly seamless. I have a similar frustration with Threads: having to contact friends and ask them to enable federation before I can follow them. I'm not sure what we do about the upset users you refer to, but siloes are currently trumping user experience across multiple platforms.
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@markdarb @mmasnick This. Unless it's opt-out by default, it's excruciatingly painful to get people to bridge. It's hard to explain, hard to make people trust what it is, hard to contact each and every person. It's a never ending battle to try and unfork the divided community, especially as waves of new folk join Bluesky and not Mastodon. Feels like in my community, Bluesky has very much been "winner takes all" and the bridge, while a useful band-aid, doesn't actually heal the rift.
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@markdarb @mmasnick I've not met anyone on Mastodon actively hostile to the bridge either. People in my circles all welcome it. I don't buy this notion there's a homongenous "fediverse" community even though it gets painted that way because of a noisy minority (I'm guessing minority) with a particular point of view.
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@evan @mmasnick Evan, as you and I have discussed directly in the past, all of the atproto specifications and core implementations are under free and open licenses. Specifically, MIT and Apache 2.0 dual-licensing, with Apache 2.0 providing patent protection. Furthermore, Patents have public record, and anybody can confirm we have not filed for any.
Neither you nor I are lawyers, but I don't think there are any grounds to spread fear/uncertainty/doubt about atproto and patents.
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@markdarb @mmasnick you’ve made several claims that make little sense to me. ActivityPub isn’t seamless there’s plenty of interop issues for platforms supposedly using the same protocol. The fediverse has long since been made up of bridges and protocols that aren’t ActivityPub irrespective of AP stakeholders being disrespectful af of the work of devs that have long contributed to the space. There shouldn’t just be one protocol there damn sure shouldn’t be one platform either.
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Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋replied to hallenbeck last edited by
@hallenbeck @markdarb @mmasnick There was a thread here https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835 back in February, when the bridge's author announced he was preparing to launch it, with some Mastodon users saying very, very nasty things to him there…
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hallenbeckreplied to Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋 last edited by
I know, I saw that. I also listened to the podcast where @mike interviewed @snarfed.org. Worth a listen: https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/ryan-barrett
I meant I've personally not met anyone actively hostile to it in my circles. It seems there's a quiet majority who are ok (or indifferent) with it.
But Mike (Masnick) said Bluesky users are fine with the bridge, so make it opt-out that side. Then explore with admins making it opt-out on selected, friendly fedi servers, too.
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@mackuba @markdarb @mmasnick @mike @snarfed.org
It seems logical on fedi, where different servers have different rules and governance, that some would be opt-out and some opt-in. I'd personally choose an opt-out server, but I can see why others would choose opt-in. That's kinda the point of being able to choose one's server, right?
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@hallenbeck your comments are dismissive. You clearly saw people were uncomfortable and upset yet you push forward for the own specific needs. There were people on Bluesky that didn’t want the bridge either as they don’t like the mastodon culture. Opt-in is respectful of consent not sure why you’re keen on going against that. If you care so much you can juggle multiple accounts on both platforms and or try to convince people to bridge their accounts
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@damon I do juggle accounts on both platforms, and I've put a TON of effort into asking people to bridge. It's a neverending, exhausing, sisyphean effort. Discovery is the problem. Waves of people in my communities coming over from Twitter to Bluesky. I just gave up in the end. It's not possible. Leads to a horribly fragmented community.
Keen on opt-out because @mmasnick said Bluesky users are cool with bridging. Keen on opt-out on fedi servers friendly to that policy...
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... Not keen on opt-out on fedi servers where people are uncomfortable with it. That's the point. A plurality of approaches and a choice for users.
P.S. "the mastodon culture" - no such thing. I don't buy there's some homogenised culture. The whole point is a multitude of cultures. It sucks if people think Mastodon is one thing.
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Re being respectful of consent, why not make every federated instance opt-in? How is Bluesky any different from any other federated instance? I can answer that: it's really not on a fundamental level.
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@hallenbeck it doesn’t suck if it comes across as one thing. It’s the dominant software running on servers, the two instances owned by the nonprofit makes up 30% of the entire fedi. So no it’s very reasonable people see it as one thing and when behaviour is similar irrespective of what server people are on that’s how it will be viewed
