Exactly. It is a huge, authoritarian, corporate platform that can absolutely ruin the fedi if it ever turns against us (think ads, bad moderation, nudging campaigns, etc).

Its not at all as black and white as threads is but it is still a huge problem.

I dunno. I still posts from the Bluesky bridge getting boosts. This might not be as bad Threads.

Why would they protest and make it opt in? The whole point of the fediverse is that your posts are completely public. Literally anyone and anything can scrape it, your server would hand it to them on a silver platter. That's the point.

Hmm, let's see if I remember the terminology correctly:

Client apps have nothing to do with it, obviously.

Alternate appviews have nothing to do with it, except in that they'd presumably need to work with whatever form of atproto federation exists, if any did.

Alternate relays aren't federated unless there's some protocol for routing messages between them — such as ActivityPub.