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.

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[–] Corvid@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Hominine@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Crickets

Small wonder. A tangent, but I'm also of the opinion that someone shouldn't put their child's photo (or any information) on the internet if they don't want to distribute it in the first place.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does it purge on request?

[–] Corvid@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Not entirely sure what you mean by that. It deletes posts in the same way that any other ActivityPub server does, by federating the deletion request.

It’s up to the receiving servers to handle that request and delete the post. You can easily have an ActivityPub native server that doesn’t honor those requests.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

I found the bridgy website a bit confusing, but people who areupset should read through to get a better idea of what it actually does.

Initially I thought it was just scraping and reposting too, but I find what the dev is working towards is very much in the spirit of the fediverse.

[+] SineNomineAnonymous@lemmy.ml -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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[–] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

It doesn't scrape or facilitates scrapping. Your server sends your posts to the bridge and it federates it to other servers. That's how federation works. If you define that as facilitating scraping, then every instance on the fediverse facilitates scraping.