ALPHA! STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT.
Got an IndieWeb site?
Want to interact with Mastodon, Hubzilla,
and the rest of the fediverse?
Bridgy Fed is for you.
- How does it work?
- How do I set it up?
- How do I use it?
- Which sites are supported?
- How much does it cost?
- Who are you? Why did you make this?
- What do you do with my data?
- How long has this been around?
- I found a bug! I have a feature request!
- How does it work?
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Bridgy Fed lets you interact with federated social networks like Mastodon from your IndieWeb site. It translates replies, likes, and reposts from webmentions to federated social networking protocols like ActivityPub and OStatus, and vice versa.
- How do I set it up?
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First, your site needs to support webmentions. Check out the IndieWeb wiki for instructions for your web server.
Next, if your site doesn't already have an Atom feed, add one. If you're on WordPress, install the Atom Default Feed plugin. Otherwise, you can use granary. Just add this to your site's HTML
<head>and fill inDOMAINwith your site's domain:<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://granary-demo.appspot.com/url?url=http://[DOMAIN]/&input=html&output=atom&hub=https://bridgy-fed.superfeedr.com/" />
Finally, configure your web site to redirect these URL paths to the same paths on
https://fed.brid.gy/, including query parameters:/.well-known/host-meta /.well-known/host-meta.xrd /.well-known/host-meta.jrd /.well-known/webfinger
Here are instructions for a few common web servers:
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WordPress (self-hosted): install the Safe Redirect Manager plugin, then add these entries:
/.well-known/host-meta* => https://fed.brid.gy/.well-known/host-meta*
/.well-known/webfinger* => https://fed.brid.gy/.well-known/webfinger* - Known: TODO
- Apache: add this to your
.htaccessfile:
RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^.well-known/(host-meta|webfinger).* https://fed.brid.gy/$0 [redirect=302,last]
- nginx: add this to your
nginx.conffile, in theserversection:
rewrite ^/.well-known/(host-meta|webfinger).* https://fed.brid.gy/$request_uri redirect;
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- How do I use it?
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To like, repost, or reply to a post on a federated social network, just include a link to
https://fed.brid.gy/in your post. Your web server should then send it a webmention, which it will translate to a Salmon slap or ActivityPub activity and forward to the destination. For example:<div class="h-entry"> Regarding <a class="u-in-reply-to" href="https://mastodon.technology/@snarfed/3194674">this post</a>: <p class="e-content">Highly entertaining. Please subscribe me to your newsletter.</p> <a href="https://fed.brid.gy/"></a> </div>
To receive likes, reposts, and replies from federated social networks, just make sure your site accepts webmentions! Bridgy translates incoming Salmon slaps and ActivityPub activities to webmentions and sends them to your site. For replies, the source will usually be the permalink on the social network itself. For likes and reposts, the source will usually be a proxy page on
fed.brid.gy. For best results, make sure your webmention handler detects and handlesu-urllinks! - Which sites are supported?
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These sites are currently supported:
- Mastodon: replies, likes, and reposts aka boosts are supported, both directions, via ActivityPub.
- Hubzilla: replies, likes, and reposts aka shares are supported, both directions, via OStatus.
We're currently investigating these sites, and may support them in the future:
- Diaspora, via OStatus.
- Friendica, via OStatus.
- GNU Social (née StatusNet), via OStatus.
We're aware of the sites below, but not currently working on them. Feel free to file a feature request if you're interested in any of them!
- How much does it cost?
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Nothing! Bridgy Fed is small, and it doesn't cost much to run. We don't need donations, promise.
If you really want to contribute, file an issue or send a pull request, or donate to the IndieWeb!
- Who are you? Why did you make this?
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I'm Ryan Barrett. I'm just a guy who likes the web and likes owning my data.
- What do you do with my data?
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Nothing! Bridgy Fed isn't a business, and never will be, so I don't have the same motivations to abuse your data that other services might. More concretely, Bridgy Fed won't ever send you email, it stores as little of your PII (personally identifiable information) as possible, and it never has access to any of your passwords.
- How long has this been around?
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I started thinking about bridging federated social networks and peer to peer networkswhen I discovered them in the early 2000s. I started talking about bridging them to the IndieWeb in 2016, led a session on it at IndieWeb Summit in July 2017, wrote up concrete designs soon after, and started working on Bridgy Fed in August 2017.
- I found a bug! I have a feature request!
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Great! Please file it in GitHub. Thank you!