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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
@fromjason Agreed both about this article and about the tech press more generally. I've been thinking about writing something about this brouhaha ... none of the coverage I've seen has talked about any of the history, focused on the consent issue, or highlighted the parallels to the Meta discussions. It's ludicrous that the TechCrunch article quoted Evan on Threads about how Bluesky should adopt AP as an example of Mastodon's hostility to Bluesky -- and didn't bother to mention that Evan was in the github comments strongly defending the original non-consensual bridge proposal 😂​ But of course tech media is going to side with their corporate masters.
Anyhow the end result is actually ok -- Ryan's planning on making the bridge opt-in, and it probably increased momentum of consent-based federation in general (although there's still plenty o' challenges). And it's tricky to write about (and I'm in the middle of other stuff) so I'm not sure it's worth the time. But then again it's a very clean illustration about the differences in opinion on whether or not consent matters, which also very much relates to the Meta situation (and several of my previous posts), so maybe I'll give it a try.