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.

  • @NicoCharruaEnglish
    6•3 months ago

    I understand blocking this bridge, but if admins do that, they should block other bridges too, like bird.makeup

    • @[email protected]English
      9•3 months ago

      bird.makeup is not a bridge in the proper sense, it only brings content from Twitter to the Fediverse, not the other way around.

      • @NicoCharruaEnglish
        6•3 months ago

        It’s a crawler that ports things from one platform to another without consent from the user. If either of them are unethical and should be blocked, then both should be blocked.

        • Sean TilleyOPEnglish
          6•3 months ago

          Bridgy Fed isn’t a crawler, though. It doesn’t scrape anything, index anything, or store anything. It’s simply a translation layer.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•3 months ago

          it’s not up to the admins of the destination instances to block it, but of the ones that have their content being drained.

          You could argue then that Twitter has the right to block crawlers, which it does. But it was exactly this crackdown and wall-building that made a good portion of us to leave Twitter/Reddit and came to the Fediverse: to defend an open web.