I'm forever and especially now pissed at the people who bullied Snarfed into making the Bluesky/AP bridge explicit opt-in only.
It's like pulling teeth to work with a bridge that's explicit opt-in because that means anyone on the other side of the bridge you want to talk to you have to hand hold them through connecting to a bridge. "Oh it's just following a specific account to opt in", do you think most people have any level of comprehension that they have to follow two wholly different accounts just so I can follow them back?
They see my posts and they think it's done, they're fine with me seeing their posts, they don't give a flying fuck about bridges, but the confusion every time I have to walk them through it...
All for people who have zero idea of what the fuck federation is, assholes who are in the category of thinking this is all Mastodon, that think just because they're posting it here they're perfectly protected from the evil corporate networks and they think the bridge bursts their delicate little bubble... on top of that they demand that no, they don't do anything to be accountable at all, ****EVERYONE ELSE**** has to be accountable for their fucking paranoia.
"I don't want a corporate network to slurp up my data!" - Then why the fuck are you posting where every single corporate network can freely slurp up your data? If you don't want corporations slurping up your data then your only real choice is to only post as followers-only and turn off automatic acceptance of follow requests!
"Bluesky isn't safe, by making it opt-in people can't harass me over it" - They can harass you already, all you're doing is taking it from instead of you blocking one instance you have an issue with you demanded everyone else suffer just so you didn't have to hit the fucking block button.
"But what about people who don't know about the bridge, what about their safety?" - What the fuck about their safety? Are you demanding all the countless literal nazi servers out there block you instead of you blocking them?
And of all things Snarfed bowed to all that dogpiling hate from whiny children who refused to accept responsibility for themselves.
Let alone all the people whining about corporate takeover efforts, THEY ALREADY WON, this isn't letting them take over the network, this is how we fucking fight back by showing them how it's done.
It's like if when Internet Explorer was trying to take over browsers Mozilla and those like it just threw up their hands and decided to just split the internet. Arguing that we can't let IE take over the internet so we're just going to refuse to support anything at all related there and we'll "win" by... dying quietly...
I'm so goddam sick of the combined effect of people with zero sense both signing up for awful platforms and other people with zero sense just handing those platforms victory on a fucking silver platter.
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So, I've bridged my account via brid.gy to Bluesky. I'm looking for suggestions of bridged accounts on both sides, ones for me to follow and ones for me to suggest to people on Bluesky to tempt them to the dark... I mean AP side.
(For those not aware on the AP side: if you follow the account bsky.brid.gy@Bridgy Fed for Bluesky your account will become available to Bluesky users, no more than it is to any other instance and likewise blocking will block the bridge like any other instance. Bluesky users that have bridged will become <username>@Bridgy Fed for Bluesky, your username will become @username.ap.brid.gy, with the @ in your username becoming a period much like how mine changes from shiri@foggyminds.com to @shiri.foggyminds.com.ap.brid.gy, your profile link... because so many people on Bluesky don't know how to search a frikkin username is going to be something like bsky.app/profile/shiri.foggymi…)
(For those on the Bluesky side: if you follow the account @ap.brid.gy you'll be accessible via the ActivityPub fediverse. Unlike Bluesky the fediverse is properly federated and has absolutely no dependency on any corporation, individual people can easily run their own completely independent nodes and do so on reasonable hardware. If you do your account will become <username>@Bridgy Fed for Bluesky on the fediverse and you'll be able to access accounts at @username.ap.brid.gy with the @ sign in the normal AP username turning into a ., like how mine changes from shiri@foggyminds.com to @shiri.foggyminds.com.ap.brid.gy)
Alexeï Harlamov
Alexeï Harlamov, nommé aussi Harlamoff, Kharlamov et Charlamoff, était un peintre russe, né le 18 octobre 1840 à Dyachevka (Saratov, Empire russe) et mort le 11 avril 1925 à Paris, où il vécut principalement.
Né dans une famille de serfs qui obtient son émancipation en 1850, le jeune Alexeï, doué pour le dessin, est admis en 1854 à l'Académie impériale des beaux-arts de Saint-Pétersbourg. Il obtient la médaille d'argent trois ans plus tard, puis une nouvelle distinction en 1862 et devient l'assistant du peintre d'histoire Alexeï Tarasovich Markov (1802-1878). Jusqu'en 1868, il produit de grands formats peints figurant des scènes religieuses, fortement remarquées par l'Académie, qui lui décerne la médaille d'or et l'admet parmi ses membres en tant qu'élève; il deviendra pleinement membre en 1875. L'année suivante, il obtient une bourse pour venir à Paris compléter sa formation.
En avril 1870, la tsarine Maria Alexandrovna lui achète une œuvre, un portrait d'Alexandre II. Vers la fin de l'été, il séjourne en Normandie, puis aux Pays-Bas, au moment de l'entrée en guerre de la France contre la Prusse, accompagné entre autres de son compatriote Alexeï Bogolioubov. Il visite Bruxelles, puis Londres, et enfin La Haye, villes où il découvre dans les différents musées les grands maîtres. Fin 1871, l'Académie russe lui passe commande d'une copie de La Leçon d'anatomie du docteur Tulp de Rembrandt (La Haye), pour laquelle il reçoit 1500 roubles. De retour à Paris en 1872, il décide d'assister aux cours privés de Léon Bonnat, après avoir essuyé un refus de l'Académie des beaux-arts de Vienne pour un poste d'assistant. Son adresse parisienne est au 42 rue Fontaine. Il fréquente les soirées artistiques de son ami Bogolioubov au 95 rue de Rome. Il croise Ivan Tourgueniev. La galerie Goupil & Cie se porte acquéreur de ses tableaux, ainsi que le grand collectionneur moscovite Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (1839-1914), via Tourgueniev. De fait, Harlamov devient un intime du couple Louis Viardot et Pauline Viardot-Garcia, qui vivent 50 rue de Douai, immeuble où réside également Tourgueniev. En juin 1874, Harlamov séjourne en Allemagne, puis en Espagne, et enfin à Veules-les-Roses et Étretat, le reste de l'été. Il séjourne également à la «villa Viardot» à Bougival.
En mai 1875, il expose pour la première fois au Salon de Paris, sous le nom d'«Alexis Harlamoff», deux portraits et une nature morte. Il est ensuite présent au Salon régulièrement jusqu'en 1882, et dans le même temps, il envoie également des œuvres au salon de l'Académie russe. Le succès est alors au rendez-vous. Son portrait de Pauline Viardot est remarqué par la presse parisienne. Il loue alors l'ancien atelier d'Isidore Pils, situé 11 place Pigalle. Sa notoriété, via Goupil, gagne le marché international. C'est en artiste comblé et fêté qu'il revient pour un bref séjour à Saint-Pétersbourg, durant l'hiver 1875-1876. Peu après, de retour à Paris, son atelier accueille ses premiers élèves, dont Pauline Viardot et la soprano russe Felia Litvinne, dont il fera plusieurs portraits.
En novembre 1877, Harlamov est le cofondateur de la «Société d'entraide et de charité des artistes russes de Paris» (Общество взаимного вспомоществования и благотворительности русских), plus simplement appelée «Société des artistes russes», avec Bogolioubov (président) Tourgueniev (secrétaire), Nicolas Orloff (président d'honneur) et Horace Günzburg (administrateur, mécène), par ailleurs fondateurs de l'Organisation reconstruction travail. Les réunions se tenaient le mardi rue de Tilsitt, chez le baron Günzburg.
En 1879, il est convié, parmi d'autres artistes, à la décoration de la cathédrale du Christ-Sauveur de Moscou. Il est ensuite admis au Cercle de l'Union artistique. Le critique russe Ivan Kramskoï l'invite à participer aux expositions des Ambulants, à travers toute la Russie. En 1880, il exécute le portrait d'Andreï Kraïevsky. En 1883, passant par Florence, il fait celui de Paul Pavlovitch Demidoff et de sa famille. En 1885, Bogolioubov tente de fonder un musée à Saratov, l'actuel musée A.N. Radichtchev, et Harlamov lui fait don de quelques toiles. En 1886, Pavel Tretiakov lui achète des tableaux, destinés à la galerie Tretiakov. En 1888, il expose ses toiles dans le cadre de l'International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry de Glasgow.
Durant l'exposition universelle de 1900 à Paris, il fait partie des artistes russes invités d'honneur, et est nommé chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. En 1902, il se voit décerner l'ordre de Saint-Vladimir.
En 1909, il revient au Salon des artistes français, exposer deux portraits de femmes. Son nouvel atelier parisien se situe désormais au 57 bis, boulevard Rochechouart. Entre 1911 et 1914, il est représenté à Moscou par la Galerie Lemercier.
L'entrée en guerre puis la révolution russe affaiblissent le peintre, qui est alors très proche, depuis plusieurs années, de Felia Litvinne. Elle prend soin du peintre, l'expose dans son hôtel particulier en 1922 et 1924, et, à sa mort survenue le 11 avril 1925 dans l'atelier du boulevard Rochechouart, devient sa seule héritière.
L'époque et le monde, l'argent et le pouvoir, appartiennent aux êtres médiocres et fades. Quant aux autres, aux êtres véritables, ils ne possèdent rien, si ce n'est la liberté de mourir. Il en fut ainsi de tout temps et il en sera ainsi pour toujou
Citation déformée extraite de l'ouvrage " Le Loup des steppes" de Hermann Hesse (1927).
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Extrait de l'ouvrage " Le Loup des steppes" de Hermann Hesse (1927):
Mais je pense maintenant à ton préféré, mon ami, dont tu m'as parfois parlé et dont tu m'as aussi lu des lettres, à Mozart. Comment était-ce avec lui? Qui, en son temps, a régné sur le monde, empoché l'argent, donné le ton et compté pour quelque chose: Mozart ou les hommes d'affaires, Mozart ou les dizaines d'hommes superficiels ? Et comment est-il mort et enterré? Et je pense qu'il en a peut-être toujours été ainsi et qu'il en sera toujours ainsi, et que ce qu'on appelle dans les écoles «l'histoire universelle» et qu'il faut apprendre par cœur pour se former, avec tous les héros, les génies, les grandes actions et les grands sentiments - ce n'est qu'une escroquerie, inventée par les maîtres d'école à des fins éducatives et pour que les enfants soient tout de même occupés à quelque chose pendant les années prescrites. Il en a toujours été ainsi et il en sera toujours ainsi: le temps et le monde, l'argent et le pouvoir appartiennent aux petits et aux superficiels , et rien n'appartient aux autres, aux vraies personnes . Rien d'autre que la mort.
|L'époque et le monde, l'argent et le pouvoir, appartiennent aux êtres médiocres et fades. Quant aux autres, aux êtres véritables, ils ne possèdent rien, si ce n'est la liberté de mourir. Il en fut ainsi de tout temps et il en sera ainsi pour toujours.|
@Cory Doctorow Pinging to see what your opinion is on Bridgy Fed, the Bluesky - AP bridge. I know you have expressed strong negative feelings towards Bluesky that mirror my own, but I haven't caught mention of the bridge yet.
This is brought about especially because I'm trying to convince friends that have bought in to Bluesky to at least bridge and am trying to find bridged accounts to recommend to sweeten the pot (and maybe show them that there are better options than Bluesky...)
@Cory Doctorow so two things:
(a) Lead dev is also a huge fan of yours
(b) They suspect there might have been some slight confusion back when you tried, I think they saw evidence of you trying to use the webform to set things up.
github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/…
Gist of setting up the bridge is all you need to do is follow @Bridgy Fed for Bluesky , from there it may take a few hours depending on lag time but your profile on the Bluesky side will be pluralistic.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy (or profile link: bsky.app/profile/pluralistic.m…)
If you want your username to be craphound.com (or any other domain you own) let me know and I can walk you through how to change it once you're bridged. (Though I'd recommend a subdomain that you can then forward to your profile page because people get confused so easily and it seems like most Bluesky users have no idea they can just search for usernames...)
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@Cory Doctorow Could you double check that your follow went through? Your bridge profile still hasn't populated yet.

Shiri Bailem
in reply to Shiri Bailem • •This post brought on by another friend not comprehending that he has to follow both accounts and me waiting all day for his profile to populate on the bridge only to eventually check and see he didn't understand me at all.
I don't blame him, I blame every asshole who demanded explicit opt-in (as opposed to the implicit opt-in it would have had because follow requests are a fucking thing!)
Devil Doll, Esq.
in reply to Shiri Bailem • • •tl;dr
You seem angry. Can you use your words better?
I lost your thesis, in the rant, basically. But, I may (or may not) agree with you.
Who's to say?
Shiri Bailem
in reply to Devil Doll, Esq. • •@Devil Doll tldr: I'm pissed at everyone who kneejerk reacted at the bridge and dogpiled the dev into making it opt-in despite there not being a single valid argument for it, that wouldn't have impacted them at all, and made the lives worse of everyone who wants to use the bridge.
I didn't put hashtags because it's not a thesis, it's just a rage rant into the void.
Devil Doll, Esq.
in reply to Shiri Bailem • • •Shiri Bailem
in reply to Devil Doll, Esq. • •Devil Doll, Esq.
in reply to Shiri Bailem • • •So, I'm a tech human.
Wtf is "the bridge", and why the fuck should I care?
I want to understand you.
Shiri Bailem
in reply to Devil Doll, Esq. • •@Devil Doll a bridge is a service that connects different protocols together, fed.brid.gy connects ActivityPub (the one you're on) to a few different ones, the most controversial is Bluesky's AT network.
It means that you have the ability to, with your current account, follow users on Bluesky and they can follow you.
What people bullied the dev into is a convoluted layer that means you aren't visible on the bridge unless you follow bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy, but not only that... you have to convince anyone you want to follow on Bluesky to follow @ap.brid.gy.
Because it was made explicit opt-in (as in you have to bend over backwards to opt in as opposed to the normal methods), this means that if you bridge your account others can follow you on Bluesky but you won't see their replies (let alone be able to reply to them) unless they follow ap.brid.gy.
So every friend I see joining Bluesky I have to convince to follow this strange account in addition to following me so that we can actually properly connect. Half the time they don't understand, only follow me and shrug at the other account because as far as they're concerned it looks like it's working fine.
Shiri Bailem
in reply to Shiri Bailem • •Devil Doll, Esq.
in reply to Shiri Bailem • • •Why do you care?
I'm on Mastodon, posting my thoughts, and I have no concern about federation, followers, popularity, or how others interact with me.
I know how already skewed Bluesky is, and that it is owned by venture capitalism, and that everyone on Bluesky is a fucking idiot, because we've been here, and it didn't work out well, then, so these idiots' faith that it will be different, this time, is such a red flag, and you want them to see it...people like @mmasnick.bsky.social are FUCKING BRAINWASHED, but they won't listen to you, when you try to save them.
But, why do you care? That's what I'm interested in.
Shiri Bailem
in reply to Devil Doll, Esq. • •@Devil Doll because "idiot" is an ableist term used to dismiss people's very real needs, wants, and realities.
People use Bluesky because they've heard of it, because other people are on there, because they don't even know what the hell the fediverse is and too many people have made it overcomplicated.
I care because what I want isn't just a feed of complete strangers and shitposting... I want to actually keep up with people I care about and I want to do so without having to rely on a fucking corporate network.
The people I follow through the bridge? Mostly people I know in real life.
The people on Bluesky aren't "idiots", they're just people who have moved where it's convenient and popular to move.
Why don't they move here? Because any effort to make the space more acceptable is met with demands for ideological purity.
I don't want the fediverse to just be a toy... I want it to be an actual place to connect, I want it to overthrow the corporate networks... but that'll never happen if people keep demanding that we isolate and make it harder to connect with us.
Devil Doll, Esq.
in reply to Shiri Bailem • • •Stop it.
They're idiots.
Everyone caught up in the "bridge" argument is an idiot.
You might be included.
Stop it.
Mastodon is never lock in, because it is not a currency.
Bluesky converts you to a currency.
Grow up.
Shiri Bailem
in reply to Devil Doll, Esq. • •@Devil Doll given that your response to being told that "idiot" is ableist is to just start throwing it around more and arguing the same ideological purity I claimed about... pretty sure I'm not the one who needs to grow up lol
Good night, I'm not entertaining whiny brats tonight.
Devil Doll, Esq.
in reply to Shiri Bailem • • •Fair, but resolves nothing.
Bluesky is a fucking insane brainwash, conducted in plain sight, and zombies are real.
@mmasnick.bsky.social
IS just my easy goto exemplar.
This is easy, folks.