#bridgyfed

Bluesky är ett centraliserat socialt medium. Ett enda vinstdrivet företag, Bluesky Social PBC, kontrollerar all kommunikation på Bluesky. Det finns dessutom i praktiken bara en enda server som ägs av samma kommersiella företag. Det innebär att det inte handlar om ett decentraliserat eller federerat nätverk. Utan motsatsen. Teoretiskt går det att ha en egen server som kommunicerar med det…

Gist of what came about: Bridgy identifies it's accounts as "application" types and apparently Friendica treats those accounts differently, expecting them to be send messages but not need to receive... so it never actually sends post updates to them which means in turn the bridge never has a post to forward... unless you tag a bridged account, which explicitly sends it.

Looks like both teams are looking at fixes, Bridgy is going to change it's account types (but won't be sending updates, the few who are affected can just use the update contacts option to fix it) and Friendica is looking at potentially minimally invasive fixes.

My temporary fix that might work? I manually changed the account type in the database...

Bridgy Fed turns your web site into its own Fediverse account, visible in Mastodon and beyond. You can post, reply, like, repost, and follow Fediverse accounts by posting on your site with microformats2 and sending webmentions. Bridgy Fed translates those posts into ActivityPub, and when people inside the Fediverse respond, it sends those responses back to your site as webmentions.

This isn’t syndication or POSSE! You don’t need an account on Mastodon or anywhere else. Bridgy Fed makes your site a first class member of the Fediverse. People there will see your posts directly from your site, and vice versa.

Bridgy Fed takes some technical know-how to set up, and there are simpler (but less powerful) alternatives. If you just want your site’s posts to show up in the Fediverse, without any other interactions, consider an RSS or Atom feed bot instead. Or, if you want to cross-post to an existing Mastodon account, try Bridgy.

So although this takes some tech know how to setup, the key thing is your own website acts as your Fediverse instance. You need not actually register on a 3rd party Fediverse server for an account. Commenters from the Fediverse can merge in with your website’s commenters, creating a real seamless integration for others.