Oric 🇦🇹 🏳️‍🌈  🔞Jul 29, 2023

I think so far the most disheartening thing about Fedi/Mastodon is that I see people not want to join due to ongoing elitism.

Don't give people flack for staying on Twitter or moving to BSky, they're not our enemies.

It's fair if you disagree with those platforms and how they're run, but don't take it out on the users. They have their reasons, and being insulted for not being on Fedi/Mastodon is one of them.

Given recent circumstances, yes, staying on Twitter is an incredibly dangerous game, but not stupidity.
There's many factors that weigh into that decision, from time to convenience to reach, all of them are valid in one way or another, maybe not to you, but it's still real.

tldr;
Don't make it "Us vs Them", there is no "Them"

Be inviting to those not on Fedi/Mastodon, don't try to insult them into joining

Show threadOric 🇦🇹 🏳️‍🌈  🔞Jul 29, 2023

And I also understand the frustration of BSky with it being invite-only. It feels awful to be left out.

But the fact it's invite-only isn't the fault of the users, the software IS in early Beta stages, they can't just dump an unregulated amount of users on it and "see how it goes". This might've been different if Twitter wasn't in such a controversial state, but atm they'd have to expect a ridiculous amount of users if they opened the floodgates.

AT Proto is meant to federate in the future, I don't see a reason there can't be a bridge between here and there, both of them are open source and would result in the best of both worlds.

Show threadgray 🐺🇮🇪Jul 29, 2023
@Oric been saying for ages that a bridge would solve most issues but realistically probably not gonna happen
Show threadgray 🐺🇮🇪Jul 29, 2023
@Oric most people have moved to bsky from what ive seen, some here, and a minority to threads
Show threadOric 🇦🇹 🏳️‍🌈  🔞Jul 29, 2023

@gray Threads has Facebook attached, so for many that's already a killer (also no NSFW lol)

As for an AT<->ActivityPub bridge...
Yeah, there won't be a global one, too many posts on either side, but I could see a couple furry bridges popping up.

Show threadOrion 🏴‍☠️🐾⎇ 🔜 EF30

@Oric @gray Maybe mastodon could one day speak both protocols, which would enable posts from there to be shared around here.

Though it is inherently limited, bluesky is a lot less flexible from what I've seen, which makes it unappealing as a whole for me.

Jul 29, 2023 at 10:30pmWeb
Show threadgray 🐺🇮🇪Jul 29, 2023
@awooo @Oric didn't even consider that, but it seems very unlikely tbh