Tag: Bridgy

Liked Possible futures for Bridgy Fed by Ryan BarrettRyan Barrett (snarfed.org)

If you think Bridgy Fed needs to grow up and be real infrastructure, and you’re interested in possibly leading it as executive director, or adopting it into a bigger organization, or you know somone who might be, that’s a very possible future. Drop me a line, I’d love to talk. In the meantime, when people ask me whether it can scale, or switch to opt-out, or what the long term plan is, I now have something to point them to. Thanks for reading.

Source: Possible futures for Bridgy Fed by @schnarfed

📓 IndieWeb Itch – Activity Pub / Better Connecting with Mastodon

I have a new #IndieWeb itch. Inspired by Doug Belshaw’s recent microcast, I now want to explore setting up my own ‘instance of one‘.

After exploring the Activity Pub plugin, I am currently exploring Bridgy Fed to work out the difference between the two.

This method seems to involve a few other steps, including adding a feed to the header and Safe Redirect Manager plugin. It also seems to be a bit more technical. However, I am assuming that the Bridgy Fed and Mastodon options recently added to Syndication Links mean that it can be controlled per most, as opposed to every post with the Activity Pub post.

I have followed the steps, but still trying to get posts to follow through. Maybe I need to have my new instance added to Bridgy? Not sure.

Replied to https://mastodon.cloud/web/statuses/103426382822483514 by Chris AldrichChris Aldrich (Mastodon)

Spent a few minute to finally set up my website with Brid.gy so that it’s now pulling responses back from Mastodon. It’s so nice to see all the interactions that were once “lost” to me coming back to live with their proper contexts on my website.

For those looking to tinker with their websites as it relates to interacting with Mastodon, the IndieWeb has a reasonable number of potential options in addition to your ability to roll your own.

Chris, after reading Laura Kalbag’s post, I am wondering if I need to just dive in and go all bridgy.fed and continue my exploration of the social media of one.
Liked Backfeed without code by Ryan BarrettRyan Barrett (snarfed.org)

Here’s a hand wavy design sketch:

– Create a new task that’s triggered by a new reply to one of your posts.
–  Configureit to send a POST webhook to Telegraph’s API (https://telegraph.p3k.io/webmention) with these query parameters:
token: your API key
source: the reply’s URL
target_domain: your web site’s domain

Replied to No webmentions to original URLs that include emojis (BoffoSocko)

I’ve found a few instances in which Brid.gy will apparently fail to send a webmention (and/or fail to find a target) when the original URL contains an emoji(s). I’d suspect it’s a quirky encoding issue of some sort. I’m sure I’ve seen this issue before on Instagram where it’s probably more likely as the result of emojis in Instagram “titles” when using PESOS methods. When I subsequently remove the emoji from the permalink, and reprocess Bridgy then has no problem finding the URL and sending the webmention. So at least there’s a “fix” on the user’s side for those experiencing this issue, but only if they’re aware it exists and have the means of executing it. Example of failed webmention: (I’ll note that it’s also got a fragment # in the URL, but don’t think this is a part of the issue) Original: F0%9F%93%85-virtual-homebrew-website-club-meetup-on-may-15-2019/?replytocom=262215#respond Syndicated copy that was liked:

This issue with webmentions and emojis is the reason when I manually set each slug, because what I was finding was that my posts were not pinging. However, when I used the permalink then it worked. For example:

https://collect.readwriterespond.com/?p=10116

Rather than:

https://collect.readwriterespond.com/No+webmentions+to+original+URLs+that+include+emojis

Liked https://jackjamieson.net/3311-2/ by Jack Jamieson (jackjamieson.net)

I think Bridgy’s development history demonstrates the kinds of challenges that arise when trying to build alternatives alongside corporate platforms, instead of simply opting out. While principled technologists attempt to build a Web for the future, they must work through the present. This means contending with messiness, heterogeneity, and resistance from established infrastructures.

Liked Bridgy traffic bump by Ryan BarrettRyan Barrett (snarfed.org)

https://snarfed.org/bridgy_traffic_bump.png https://snarfed.org/bridgy_traffic_bump.png
A few weeks ago, Bridgy‘s traffic suddenly shot up to 20-50x its baseline, from 5-10 human visitors per day to 200-300. Humans in browsers, not bots or other requests; this ain’t Google Analytics’s first rodeo. They’re all generally coming to the site directly, not from search. If they’re coming from links or social networks, we can’t tell, due to HTTPS etc.

Liked Threaded conversations between WordPress and Twitter by Chris AldrichChris Aldrich (BoffoSocko)

I’ve written about threading comments from one WordPress website to another before. I’ve long suspected this type of thing could be done with Twitter, but never really bothered with it or necessarily needed to do it, though I’ve often seen cases where others might have wanted to do this.