Brutkey

The Nexus of Privacy
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Agreed that both bridging and cross-posting are useful. In practice I think of it more as a continuum than a sharp distinction. Bridged conversations can be less fragmented, but what if Eve and/or Frank aren't bridged? And as @mackuba@martianbase.net was jsut discussing on Bluesky, client support is really needed to make bridging smooth as well ... a good example of @laurenshof@indieweb.social's point that "ferdation is in the client."

Of course there are similar dynamics with federation, once you take instance blocking and incompatible software into account. In fact when I was experimenting with Discord/Mastodon/NodeBB federation a couple of days ago I was thinking how similar it was to the lossiness of BridgyFed conversations.

I almost wonder if bridging isn't the general way of looking at it, with direct federation over a shared protocol as one special case, cross-posting (automatically, via cliants, or via the low-tech cut-and-paste method) as another, cross-protocol adapers like BridgyFed and Hubzilla as a third.

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