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@austin@mstdn.party@berniethewordsmith If there is a culture, it is that of fear. POC fear harassment because they don't have the tools. Project maintainers fear blowback even after consultations for several months. Instance admins fear defederation due to not being able to know the "whole story." ActivityPub advocates fear other platforms subverting the userbase despite gaping holes in usability. So on so forth. Consent is important, but the current approach is avoiding the hard questions about fediverse itself.
I agree that the current approach is somewhat dancing around the hard questions about the fediverse itself -- but I think @berniethewordsmith is right that people defending opt-out were ignoring the culture that values consent. All the blowups around consent have come after people either didn't consult, or consulted and ignored the suggestions that they should take a consent-based approach. So for people pushing for an opt-in bridge, anger played a much bigger role than fear.