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Bridgy Fed updates

All the recent Twitter drama has sparked renewed interest in Mastodon and the fediverse and even Bridgy Fed, my little IndieWeb side project that turns personal web sites into full-fledged fediverse accounts. A month and a half ago, I was all set to take it easy, maybe play a game or two, and poke at […]
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Micropub for Bridgy Publish

I’ve added a significant new Bridgy Publish feature: Micropub support! Up until now, Bridgy Publish offered two ways to post to silos: interactively from user pages and via webmention trigger. Now there’s a third way: Micropub. You can now connect a Micropub client to Bridgy and use it to publish posts to any supported silo. […]
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Bridgy stats update

It’s been a year since I last looked at Bridgy usage stats, so here’s an update! The most noticeable event since last year is that Instagram finally blocked our server side scraping for good. We quickly launched a browser extension for both Instagram and Facebook, which is working well, but meant we had start to […]
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Bridgy stats update

Another year down, another update on Bridgy‘s usage stats! We first announced these during State of the Indieweb at IndieWebCamp West 2020, then posted them here for posterity. The most noticeable part of last year’s stats was losing Facebook and Google+. We made up for that this year by adding three new silos: Mastodon, Meetup, […]
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Mastodon on Bridgy

Mastodon is now on Bridgy! Both backfeed and publish (aka POSSE) are fully supported. Feel free to try them out! And let me know if you hit any bugs, problems, or missing features. (If you’re already using Bridgy Fed for Mastodon, don’t worry, it’s not going anywhere! I use it myself. Bridgy’s new Mastodon support […]
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