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That's a good question. We have the Lemmy platform, but that's built on the wider ActivityPub platform. So I would consider threads part of the platform.

Framing it as isolationists is ludicrous.

I love the idea of an Internet without borders, but there needs to be some shared values. That's what the ActivityPub protocol provides a platform for. To suggest that everything we do or post should be free is ridiculous. If the communities of BlueSky and Nostfr want to access our content, why don't they switch to ActivityPub and problem solved?

As a point, say that I write a poem and put it on my mastodon and then bridgey scrapes it and copies it. How do we get that taken down? A picture of my kid? A picture of someone else's kid?

There's absolutely no issues with ActivityPub growing, it can encompass the whole internet for all I care, but that needs to come with the protections, provisions and failsafes that the ActivityPub protocol offers. Bridgey doesn't do that, so again I say… If BlueSky and Nostfr want to pivot to ActivityPub, they're more than welcome, but the Internet I'm trying to build isn't about profiting off of small people without a voice and that's what Bridgey and this isolationism rhetoric tries to do.

I'm of the opinion that we don't value our content enough. We should respect it and people. But we should also believe in our community to create its own content. I get so much help here and am so grateful for all the people. I love every experience I have here and I believe everyone can have similar experiences if they stop trying to recreate old experiences.

But with AP, you can purge content. When you scrape content, there's no way to get a purge notice.

I don't even like the fact that we're forced to train AI via captcha. When we start getting paid for what we put in, I'll reconsider my stance.

That raises a point, what is the process regarding DMCA and GDPR? There's no mechanism to delete posts via scraped content.

I'm actually not a fan of copying Reddit content over to here either. I'm at least consistent that in my thought processes.

I quite like the way that reads. It sounds like some people within the BBC are quite forward thinking.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that platforms you're not a member don't host content you create in order to make it look at though their platform is more popular and vibrant than it is, thus generating revenue of which you're not going to get a share of.

BlueSky employs a competing protocol

To ActivityPub services. BlueSky doesn't support the protocol