Bridgy Fed now supports all web sites! You can now use it from the fediverse to see and follow any site, regardless of whether it has microformats2, webmentions, or WebFinger. Bridgy Fed extracts as much profile info as it can, generates fediverse posts from Atom and RSS feeds, and so on.
Web sites start out bridged to the fediverse as [domain]@web.brid.gy. For example, to see new nature.com articles in your fediverse feed, follow @nature.com@web.brid.gy. And as always, you can upgrade Bridgy Fed to use your web site’s domain in its fediverse handle, like mine at @snarfed.org@snarfed.org.
(I’ve loved seeing other similar bridges recently too, including @twilliability@genart.social‘s RSS Parrot and @dave@podcastindex.social‘s pi-activitypub-server. We’re all pulling in the same direction!)
This is one more step toward making Bridgy Fed support people wherever they are, on any network, fully bidirectionally. Stay tuned for more!
@snarfed.org Holy cow that’s a huge update! Very cool!
Oh, that’s really cool! Is there any way of using feeds other than the first autodiscovered one from /? Which would be necessary for things like shared domains and ComicsRSS.com and so on.
@fluffy hmm! Not yet. Bridgy Fed doesn’t really support multiple users on the same web site right now. It could be possible, maybe, but it would be a substantial amount of work.
I’m definitely open to letting web sites indicate which feed they want BF to consume though, if not the first! Any idea how that should happen?
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@snarfed.org Would there be a way for me to reset mine? It seems to have not been able to load an ATOM feed (wrong URL, oop) but now won’t seem to register webmentions, and because it’s static HTML I can’t troubleshoot what the deal is. This feels like the kind of thing that should be perfect for static sites.
@snarfed.org I may have asked before but question: is there thought for a public API pollable for a URL? Say I make a post on my site, a public API JavaScript on the site could poll for all public and unlisted-type replies to that post’s URL/fedi-post? The webmention feature is neat but because I run a static HTML site I can’t log/store webmentions for later, not without a separate script somewhere and some CF page rules that redirect to that script, and that gets wonky fast.