cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/17686207

It’s a very long post, but a lot of it is a detailed discussion of terminology in the appendix – no need to read that unless you’re into definitional struggles.

  • Cris@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Gotcha. I understand why they chose to do it that way, but I do kinda wish it was possible to just follow someone

    Thank you very much for the link/explanation!

    • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, it’s somewhat useful but certainly not a great solution. It’s great that they went the opt-in route, but there aren’t any good existing frameworks for how to do it, so they had to roll their own. There’s certainly room for improvement, it would be great if either Bluesky or the Social Web Foundation (or both) or somebody else invested in it, but hard to know if and when thta’ll happen.