Bluesky allows me to use my domain as my identity and make my own moderation decisions without having to run my own instance.

That choico is tied to your identity and can’t be easily changed later, which is what I’m complaining about.

You can choose a different moderation service. That’s the point.

But worse than anyone being able to follow that person because they’re using a platform where moderation is separate from identity, as in AtProto.

The Fediverse is, by definition, anything that supports ActivityPub. If BlueSky supported ActivityPub – which is what the bridge was meant to accomplish – then it would be a part of the Fediverse.

By using the Fediverse, you implicitly opt in to having your content federated between different platforms. How is this any different?

Seeing the reaction to the bridge, it seems that most Mastodon users don’t want AtProto to be compatible with ActivityPub.

So you didn’t get the choice at all? I guess people who sign up this way are going to be really confused why they can’t follow some accounts their friends can.

How about an advertisement poster for parking lessons, to get the point across?

Do you have a link to the research? I’m a math educator and I’d like some good materials for encouraging my students.

I personally like Purelymail. Cheap and bullshit-free.

It already has Twitter-like and Instagram-like platforms. How much worse can it get?

Just like you have to make another account on each Fediverse platform because either they’re incompatible or one of them blocks the other.

How is this walled-garden behavior? There is no centralized database of Minetest accounts.

Wiser words have never been spoken.

I hate that it constantly plays advertisements for itself. Like, I’m already listening to you, I don’t need to be informed that you exist.

Betteridge’s law of headlines…

You would be able to find them if every instance didn’t decide to defederate with Threads.

It means you’re compensating for the lack of optional/named parameters in your language.

The ends of the horseshoe.