A libre networking project that's designed to bridge protocol spaces together announced its progress and intentions, and Mastodon users freaked out.

Bridgy Fed made a splash earlier this week by announcing its latest progress in connecting the Fediverse to Bluesky and Nostr. Sadly, not everyone was welcoming.

  • Corvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Bridgy doesn’t scrape anything. It works the same as any other ActivityPub instance, the only difference is that it converts some JSON from one format to another.

    It also converts edit and deletion events, so in your scenario it would relay that you want your poem or photo deleted.

    This isn’t a web scrapper that reposts content like all the bots reposting Reddit threads to Lemmy. This is a protocol translator between federated networks that speak different languages.

        • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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          6 months ago

          The largest Mastodon instance (mastodon.social) has 360k MAU. This means that one can crawl all of its activities with less than 5 requests per second, every day.

          Even with rate limits, the Fediverse is still so small that I could crawl the top 10 mastodon instances in less than a day.

          From my desktop PC.

          On my shitty DSL.

          Anyone thinking that bullying one developer into a well-meaning project will be enough to keep their “secret clubs” away from malicious actors are in for a sad realization.