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Finally sitting down to watch/listen to the podcast with Mike Mccue, CEO of Flipboard, and Ryan Barrett, creator of BridgyFed.

This should be good!😁

So cool to see the leaders in this space share info and help each other make this the best social media project it could be! 1/?

Link: inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=TtVtQOHl

Flipboard | InvidiousBuilding Bridges to the Fediverse, with Ryan BarrettThe beauty of an open system is that anyone can build on top of it and try to make it a better place. In the fediverse, software engineer Ryan Barrett is one such developer. Ryan’s been building social network bridges and related tools for over 12 years, including Bridgy, which connects personal websites and blogs to centralized social networks, and Bridgy Fed, which connects them to the fediverse. He’s also a co-founder of Google AppEngine, which informed Google Cloud’s infrastructure, and has held engineering leadership roles at Google, Color and NCX. Most recently, Ryan’s work to connect Bluesky, which uses the AT protocol, to Mastodon and other platforms using the ActivityPub protocol ignited a firestorm. Ryan wanted to advance the fediverse’s promise of interoperability but he inadvertently stirred up culture clashes between platforms and fervent discussions around consent, maintaining safety, fears of commercialism, and what being an open standard really means. Highlights of this conversation include: 1:28 Ryan’s approach to bridging disparate social networks 6:30 Why he built Bridgy Fed; 2-way RSS “a breakthrough idea” 8:11 Reactions when he announced bridge to Bluesky 10:07 Ryan’s takeaways and debrief from the outcry 17:30 Managing expectations: instances, defaults, attack vectors 22:03 Reactions on Bluesky 23:30 Culture differences within the fediverse 25:29 What’s next with Bridgy Fed 30:05 Discoverable opt-in and exploration of different approaches 33:10 Thinking at a macro level: protecting ourselves while enabling global growth 43:17 What is motivating Ryan personally 45:43 How Flipboard is thinking about federation 58:52 Good things that came out of the backlash 🔎 You can follow Ryan at /snarfed.org. He’s also on Mastodon at @snarfed.org@snarfed.org and on Bluesky at @snarfed.org ✚ You can connect with Mike McCue on Mastodon at @mike@flipboard.social or at @mike@flipboard.com 💡 To learn more about what Flipboard's doing in the fediverse, sign up here: http://about.flipboard.com/a-new-wave 💰Mastodon is a non-profit that runs on donations from the community. You can help Mastodon succeed by supporting the organization via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

Ryan made a pretty good point around the 16 minute mark about how Threads wasn't told to make their federation "opt-in" from the Fediverse side and that people feel differently about bridges for some reason.

Even though, they're the same thing, in most ways. 2/?

So, at the 29 minute mark, Ryan talks about how Mastodon's search discoverability feature is currently opt-in and there's only 5-6% of people currently opting-in. That's a wild statistic!😬 3/?

This video is SO good! Anyone who is interested in Fediverse nuances and the issues we've been debating for months now, should definitely watch this video! 4/?

Charlie

@BeAware Alright fine, I'll give it a watch while I work on this network diagnostic tool.