Hi all! I’m overdue for another [Bridgy Fed](
Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.
) status update. Bottom line up front: [we’re now bridging video on Bluesky](
GitHub
Bluesky video · Issue #1317 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
Should be straightforward, mostly just need to add translation in granary bluesky.from_as1/to_as1 and enable fetching in ATProto._convert: bridgy-f...
)! Out from Bluesky works now, in will work as soon as they finish their user rollout, hopefully within days.
Also, [Bridgy Fed can now ask people to bridge their accounts](
Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.
)! This is the [infamous](
GitHub
Opt in/out prompt · Issue #880 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
If you do implement some sort of opt-in system, I don't want a new notification every time someone follows me. I use fediverse software that suppor...
) [“discoverable opt in,”](
GitHub
DM bot user to prompt remote users to enable (opt into) the bridge · Issue #966 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
Blocking this on Bluesky OAuth since I want to identify the requesting Bluesky user and include their handle in the prompt DM, but I don't want to ...
) and it’s finally launched. If you want to follow someone, but they’re not bridged, send their handle to Bridgy Fed in a DM or chat message, and it will message them to say you’re asking. (Only once; it won’t send another message if someone else asks.)
We send a couple other DMs now too, a [welcome when you bridge your account](
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send DM confirmation when someone opts in · Issue #1024 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
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), and an [FYI when you reply to someone but they won’t see it because you’re not bridged ](
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ATProto => AP: if a non-bridged user replies, send them a DM opt-in request · Issue #1205 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
From: https://bsky.app/profile/mackuba.eu/post/3kvytnvcob72o As a kind of extension to #966: same way as a DM bot will ping Fediverse users if they...
).
It’s been a busy couple months. I was all set to post this weeks ago, after I [put the finishing touches on DMs](
GitHub
DM bot user to prompt remote users to enable (opt into) the bridge · Issue #966 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
Blocking this on Bluesky OAuth since I want to identify the requesting Bluesky user and include their handle in the prompt DM, but I don't want to ...
), but then [Brazil](
Bluesky Social
Paul Frazee (@pfrazee.com)
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) [happened](
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bryan newbold (@bnewbold.net)
firehose in a nutshell, past couple days.
quiet now, what will the weekend bring?
). [3M new users and 10-20x usage increase in just a few days!](
Bluesky
Welcome to Bluesky! - Bluesky
What a week! In the last few days, Bluesky has grown by more than 2.6 million users, over 85% of which are Brazilian. Welcome, we are so excited to...
)
Amazingly, even though Bluesky team hosts all the difficult-to-scale parts themselves, not in the cloud, they’d still planned for this kind of surprise and handled it ok. Bridgy Fed though, not so much. It stayed up and serving, but [Bluesky => fediverse got slower and slower](
GitHub
Bluesky = fediverse: can't yet handle load from influx of new Brazilian users · Issue #1295 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
Instructed my friends migration to bluesky to follow https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy so I could follow them on mastodon. But they never receive...
). Tough timing, too, I was busy with other things and couldn’t find much time to work on it, so after a week it was almost 3 days (!) behind.
Fortunately, I finally managed to speed it up – props to [Ilya](
Ilya Siamionau | CV
Software Engineer
)‘s [libipld](
GitHub
GitHub - MarshalX/python-libipld: 🏎️ Fast Python library to work with IPLD: DAG-CBOR, CID, CAR, multibase
🏎️ Fast Python library to work with IPLD: DAG-CBOR, CID, CAR, multibase - MarshalX/python-libipld
) library, among other things! – and after it [worked through the backlog](
GitHub
monitoring: add ATProto firehose delay · Issue #1296 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
When Bluesky sees a big spike in usage, and the firehose event rate spikes, like has been happening over the past couple days with the influx of ne...
), we were back in business.
Anyway. [Since last time](
snarfed.org
snarfed.org
Hi all! Time for another regular (ish) Bridgy Fed status update, with big news: we’re bridging web sites to Bluesky! We’ve supported th...
): video, DMs, usage spike, and other features and bug fixes too:
<li><a href="
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/12#issuecomment-2302776658">Improved Pleroma</a> <a href="
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1300">and Flipboard</a> compatibility.</li>
<li><a href="
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1192">Improved style of web => Bluesky bridged posts</a>, also now <a href="
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1191">try harder to include an image</a>.</li>
<li><a href="
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1060">Drastically improved monitoring and alerting.</a></li>
<li><a href="
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1243">Stricter authorization for AP <code>Undo</code>s.</a></li>
<li><a href="
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues?page=2&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+sort%3Aupdated-desck">…and lots more bug fixes.</a></li>
As usual, feel free to ping me with feedback, questions, and [bug reports](
GitHub
snarfed/bridgy-fed
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). You can follow the [*now* label on GitHub](
GitHub
snarfed/bridgy-fed
🌉 A bridge between decentralized social networks. Contribute to snarfed/bridgy-fed development by creating an account on GitHub.
) to see what I’m currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!
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