Post #1857208

All I care about is being able to follow the people I want to follow, from a single account, regardless of whether they're on the #Fediverse or #Threads or #BlueSky or #Nostr or whatever. I really don't care who does or does not get to see my public posts. The whole point of a public post is that it's (wait for it) PUBLIC. By definition, I want it to be seen by as many people as possible. If I don't want a post to be public, I'll mark it unlisted or followers-only, or I'll send it as a DM (yes, I know DMs on Mastodon aren't encrypted at rest. That is unfortunate). There is zero expectation of privacy for posts you make public. Never has been. On any network. If #BridgyFed comes online, I *want* all my public posts to be seen by people on #Bluesky and #Nostr and wherever else BF decides to bridge to. And I want people on all those platforms to be able to find and follow me. And I don't want to have to do anything special to make that happen. But now because of a few irate paranoid people who happened to have a problem with the author's use of the phrase "opt out" (the entire Fediverse is opt-out by default, don't you know), that's probably never going to happen. Now, if I understand correctly, I'll have to explicitly opt-in to be discoverable by BlueSky users, but what's worse, BlueSky users who want me to be able to find them from my Fediverse account have to explicitly opt in too. Which is a total joke. Most of them don't even know the Fediverse *exists*, have no knowledge or understanding of this bridge, and/or have no interest in the Fediverse. Or they would've joined the Fediverse-proper by now. In fact, one of the hopes was that when BS users start getting followed by Fediverse users, they'll see our weird handles, wonder what it's all about, do some research, and maybe by virtue of that, will end up joining us "for realsies":.. So how many BS users do you think are going to opt-in to be discoverable from the Fediverse? Especially the high-profile accounts, the accounts I was most looking forward to being able to follow and interact with?