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#FediBlock snarfed.org and brid.gy for bridging fediverse folks to Bluesky against their will (and in likely contravention of GDPR in the EU) with typical Silicon Valley techbro sense of entitlement:
“[O]pt in results in far fewer users, and users are critical for a bridge to be useful.”¹
Relevant GitHub issue: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835
¹ https://snarfed.org/2023-11-27_re-introducing-bridgy-fed
HT @homegrown
PS. I just suspended (domain blocked) both snarfed.org and brid.gy from my personal fediverse instance and saw that there was already one account from one and eleven accounts on the other so my account was apparently already being bridged without my consent.
Those links are now severed and they never should have existed without my knowledge or approval to begin with.
@aral The, ah, discourse on this is going to keep being interesting.
There‘s at least a subset of people who are really interested in pushing the networks together, even though BlueSky‘s moderation intent is IMHO more than suspect, and there‘s a bunch of communities on BlueSky who would post to the Feddiverse with intent to harm.
The lack of awareness is… frustrating.
@Sevoris It’s not a lack of awareness it’s a sense of entitlement. They’re aware; they know perfectly well that making it opt-in – in other words, making it respect consent – is against their goal of having as many users as possible. They’ve literally said so themselves (see quote in original post).
@aral Oh I don‘t mean just the developer. It‘s other users on the Fediverse too.
That said, yeah it‘s entitlement also. "these harms can‘t be real" and "those issues don‘t exist!" and "well but my values are".
