@agrinova@social.cologne
@chronohart@tech.lgbt @luca@sironi.tk @PCOWandre@jauntygoat.net @activitypubblueskybridge@venera.social @fedidevs@venera.social @fediversenews@venera.social

I’m not a GDPR expert, but because the bridge isn’t stateful (ie just forwards posts) I don’t think you are going to apply any of the data directives. Worst case, you might have to do something for instances hosted in Europe. But whatever you do applies much more strongly to actual instance servers. Those are hosting data created by and about users.

@agrinova@social.cologne
@chronohart@tech.lgbt @luca@sironi.tk @PCOWandre@jauntygoat.net @activitypubblueskybridge@venera.social @fedidevs@venera.social @fediversenews@venera.social

That takes a lot of time, and as someone in IT, most people take the defaults and are SHOCKED to learn some features exist. 😁

Having this behave like the rest of the fediverse accelerates the awareness and usefulness of the bridge.

You can more rapidly achieve the goal of allowing people to connect and converse. That is after all why the fediverse exists. The rest of this is semantics.

@HistoPol@mastodon.social
@oliphant@oliphant.social @snarfed@indieweb.social @snarfed.org@snarfed.org @luca@sironi.tk @PCOWandre@jauntygoat.net @fedidevs@venera.social @fediversenews@venera.social @chronohart@tech.lgbt @activitypubblueskybridge@venera.social

Based on Ryan’s response and some of the other descriptions, it sounds like the bridge software knows how to handle AP block requests. So, they should be the same.

@shiri@foggyminds.com
@oliphant@oliphant.social @HistoPol@mastodon.social @snarfed.org@snarfed.org @luca@sironi.tk @PCOWandre@jauntygoat.net @chronohart@tech.lgbt @snarfed@indieweb.social

From reading some of the other posts and his answer to my earlier post, it seems he is accepting AP blocks in the software. So, both the tag and a block (domain or user) should work the same way.

@HistoPol@mastodon.social
@chronohart@tech.lgbt @luca@sironi.tk @PCOWandre@jauntygoat.net @activitypubblueskybridge@venera.social @fedidevs@venera.social @fediversenews@venera.social

This is a really good question and I don’t know the answer. This is the kinda of thing I think we should be asking about the bridge.

@snarfed@indieweb.social do you know the answer to this?

@tness16@mastodon.social
@snarfed.org@snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge@venera.social

My guess is it won’t have any way to know. But I don’t know if BS has a bot tag like Mastodon.

I would also say not all bots are bad. You can have bots that report traffic or weather. Governments have bots for distributing information.

I feel like a lot of the responses to this have been reactions to the worst possible scenario. That rarely happens. Reality is somewhere in the middle.

@tness16@mastodon.social
@snarfed.org@snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge@venera.social

I think it’s ok to question the management and assess the risks (as long as you don’t do it in a vacuum…AI is/will be an issue on ActivityPub as well). But, I also would remind you that there are real people who just want to get along and interact with their friends who happen to be on ActivityPub. This bridge allows that.