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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[–] rglullis@communick.news 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The whole idea in the first place was to NOT be corporate

The idea is that the network should not be owned and controlled by a corporation, not that no corporation should ever participate in it.

Besides, how "corporate" is a startup with a few dozen developers working on a fully open source project?

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

Honestly I see the fediverse as a massive opportunity for corporations.

If you're Google, why not host a Google corporate instance where everything is authenticated as your own content, under your own URL, but you can still reshare outside content? You'll never have the issues of unwanted or controversial content appearing with your brand. There's no chance of a parody account pretending to be your customer service, and you won't have to pay a protection fee for an authentic checkmark.

This is 10x more important for governments to do, as right now I can't view official political discourse from my own government without giving my data to a private company.