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  • The whole point of federated social media was to get out of walled gardens, yet here we are, building a walled garden.

    To an extent yes, but I think it’s pretty easy to see why people are building their own closed communities on the Fediverse. That was the whole “selling point” of it at the beginning. “Not happy with Twitter? Just spin up your own fedi instance where you have your own rules and you can control who joins and who doesn’t”.


  • You know that it is comically easy to scrape stuff off of the fediverse, right?

    Yes, so why would you argue in favour of making it even easier? Do you see why people aren’t too hot on that?

    If you are worried about scraping, use Facebook. Facebook has teams of people who combat bot/scraper activity.

    I don’t use Facebook for philosophical reasons and that’s why I’ve picked the Fediverse as a whole. I find it amazing we still need to re-explain that all the time.



  • Instead, if Bluesky grows, I can see people move away from it.

    When has that ever worked?

    This is how we wish to present ourselves as an alternative to corporate social media?

    The whole idea in the first place was to NOT be corporate. It’s pretty understandable that when those corporations come knocking pretending to be nice, a lot of people want nothing to do with it.