Bridgy Fed status update

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨snarfed.org@fed.brid.gy⁩ to ⁨activitypubblueskybridge@venera.social⁩

Hi all! I finally got another big bit of Bridgy Fed interop working earlier today: bridging Bluesky replies, likes, and reposts into the fediverse. (Only the Bluesky federation sandbox, not real users, since federation is still months away.)

Here are example screenshots:

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Lots more bug fixes, cleanup, and testing to do, but it’s nice to get this far.

Beyond development, I’m also starting to ramp up outreach a bit. The IndieWeb and Bluesky communities have been supportive so far, and the fediverse admins and community representatives I’ve approached have been generally positive, but I need to talk to more people. Now is the right time, when I still have months to hear and incorporate feedback before Bluesky federates and I’m able to ship Bridgy Fed’s Bluesky support.

Until next time!

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Sandra@idiomdrottning.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@snarfed.org@fed.brid.gy
Yes, this is positive. What I want specifically is this:
My AP posts to also show up over there on AT
(This should be opt-in because a lot of other people do not want to be proxied, but I’d wanna give it a try at least.)
People can post replies to my AP posts from there and I can reply back and forth in a convo
I can block individuals who behave badly or turn off the whole bridge if it’s too many
This is similar to how I am on OFTC normally but Matrix people can reach me at the bridge on @_oftc_sandra:matrix.org and those comments show up over on my OFTC account and I don’t even have to notice they’re on Matrix.
I’m not in a hurry to start following people who are on AT 🤷🏻‍♀️ even though that might be fun down the line.
I’m scared AT will be way more toxic and twitterlike since they deliberately are designing for an algo-driven world/global timeline which is the opposite of the bubble-coziness we have here on Fedi.
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- Sandra@idiomdrottning.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  @snarfed.org@fed.brid.gy
  
  What is your repo/branch for this stuff?
  
  @activitypubblueskybridge
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luca@sironi.tk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@snarfed.org@snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge
Is it possible to have an account on the sandbox, or maybe follow your sandbox one from fediverse ?
Just to expose your test to more scenarios, so that it will be usable just after they open (which they said , it will be in early 2024)
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