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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 @aral There are ways to do it differently. For example:
https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/
@aral true ! 
Happy that I closed my account on brid.gy a while ago.