Hi all! Well, I didn’t plan it, but word got out anyway: Bridgy Fed‘s Bluesky <=> fediverse support went online a couple weeks ago, quietly and without announcement, but people still found it. Over 1200 accounts have turned it on so far and bridged themselves one direction or the other. It’s great to see so much early interest!
(For anyone unfamiliar with Bridgy Fed, here’s an introduction.)
It’s still very early, and I wasn’t quite prepared for this much volume this quickly. Expect lots of bugs, missing features, downtime, and other rough edges. The docs are mostly up to date, at least. If you hit a problem, search the open issues, and if you don’t see it there, feel free to file it.
Also, much of the current state is not final. Expect some design and policy choices to change. For example, right now you have to manually enable the bridge, but that may change eventually, at least for Bluesky accounts bridging into the fediverse.
Otherwise, there’s a ton to do, and I’m only one person, doing this on the side, so progress will be slow. They say if you don’t feel uncomfortable when you ship, you probably waited too long, so let me just say that I feel very uncomfortable right now, hopefully in a good way. 😀 Thanks again for all the interest, and for your patience!
@snarfed.org thank you so much Ryan. It works very well, for the most part.
Again, sorry I kinda got excited early, hope that doesn’t mess anything up in the short term.
All in all, this is a great move for the platform and I’m excited to see where this project goes and what kinda things you can do to make it more “seamless” in the future!😁
@snarfed.org I was wondering “where’s the announcement” and “where’s the yes message in my DM” 😂 This explains it. Thank you for your hard work, you rock!
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@snarfed.org Good stuff!
What’s the approximate backlog time on bridging BlueSky accounts over to Fedi? I know of at least one account that followed the appropriate BridgyFed account on BSky and still hasn’t linked up after 12hrs or so..
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You rock! Much gratitude!
@snarfed.org@fed.brid.gy from what I’ve seen it doesn’t work for me yet
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Thank you for your work! Federated social media needs to bridge protocol borders.
@snarfed.org Love this. I have “signed up”!
@snarfed.org very exciting, thank you Ryan for your work!
@snarfed.org@fed.brid.gy Kepp on the good work.
@snarfed.org It’s nice when it works and not a big problem when it doesn’t, but getting big bursts of old posts several months back in time is a bit… confusing.
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@snarfed.org hey this is cool, if both accounts are bridged and bridged account A boosts bridged account B it recognises the boost:
Seems to work nicely, even though it’s not quite a finished product.
Great job so far! :)
Hi @snarfed.org – been testing both ways since yesterday, and it’s working “flawlessly” so far…Comments:- When I followed the bridged BS account from Mastodon, all past posts appeared in my TL, and I had to mute the account for now…@didiermary.fr – When I followed the bridged Mastodon account in BS, new posts only appeared (Good!), but hashtags are “passive”… just text… See here https://bsky.app/profile/cybeardjm.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy
@snarfed.org I can’t get my posts to bridge over to #Bluesky, even though my bridged profile is there and I have a follower already, am I doing something wrong?
@snarfed.org A couple of people followed me from Bluesky and as expected I see them under their bridge-handles with bio and pictures, etc. But what does it mean if the bridge-bot follows you?
@snarfed.org I don’t know if this information is helpful to you, but since I set up the bridge a few days ago, it seems that only original posts are being bridged, but not replies, nor boosts. It seems very general, so I don’t know if it’s worth filing this as a bug on Github. Would you prefer that?
@snarfed.org Oh I noticed another thing. It seems accounts on the fediverse that opted in five days or longer ago, does not get bridged to bluesky since the last three/four days. Something happened there.