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.

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    The whole idea in the first place was to NOT be corporate

    The idea is that the network should not be owned and controlled by a corporation, not that no corporation should ever participate in it.

    Besides, how “corporate” is a startup with a few dozen developers working on a fully open source project?

    • wise_pancakeEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      Honestly I see the fediverse as a massive opportunity for corporations.

      If you’re Google, why not host a Google corporate instance where everything is authenticated as your own content, under your own URL, but you can still reshare outside content? You’ll never have the issues of unwanted or controversial content appearing with your brand. There’s no chance of a parody account pretending to be your customer service, and you won’t have to pay a protection fee for an authentic checkmark.

      This is 10x more important for governments to do, as right now I can’t view official political discourse from my own government without giving my data to a private company.

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
        51·
        9 months ago

        We’re talking about Meta

        No, we talking about Bluesky.

        Dorsey’s baby

        He’s moved on to Nostr. Also, Bluesky is open source and their work can be forked by anyone. You might disagree about whether it makes sense to work on another different protocol instead of trying to improve the ActivityPub ecosystem, but let’s please not get into mud-slinging and this stupid tribal mentality.