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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 Lots of people use Bridgy for webmentions to get comments from Mastodon or other places under their articles - the discussion about that being murky privacy-wise is definitely underway.
@sarajw You see, I’d be far less inclined to object if that was the only use case. There’s a world of difference between having something appear on a personal blog of some person and on a billionaire-funded libertarian Silicon Valley social network. That said, the latter should also be opt-in. It all comes down to whether or not you respect people’s consent or whether you feel entitled to do whatever you want just because you can.
@aral yep. Agree!
@aral @sarajw Going by his GitHub comments, I wouldn't be surprised if Ryan changes the plan to opt-in after sleeping on it. Making a protocol bridge 100% opt-in comes with some thorny interaction design challenges, but the "prompted opt-in" idea that a few people have brought up seems workable. I think that's what I would do in his shoes.
@denisbloodnok @aral @sarajw I do tend to be optimistic with people. 
Of course I'm not in his head, but I empathize. He was up pretty late last night of his timezone replying to people, and in that time got the two puzzle pieces "move towards opt-in" and "how an opt-in process could work in practice" figured out, only missing the final commitment. I wouldn't have made a big statement at like 2:30am either, I would've gotten some rest and come back refreshed.
But maybe I'm wrong. We'll see! 
