*.brid.gy domain in my bridged account is ugly. Can I use my own domain instead?@bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy on the fediverse!*.brid.gy domain in my bridged account's handle is ugly. Can I get rid of it and use my own domain/web site instead?Yes! Many supported networks let you use your own domain as your handle one way or another. This takes a bit of technical setup with DNS or a web server, but it's very doable. Here are instructions for web sites and fediverse accounts bridged into Bluesky, and for web sites bridged into the fediverse.
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On Bluesky, Bridgy Fed has to poll for chat messages, so if you send it a message, it may not respond immediately. It will within a minute at most!
Not yet. If you bridge your fediverse account and then migrate to a new instance, or bridge your Bluesky account and then change your handle, or bridge your web site and then move it to a new domain, Bridgy Fed doesn't officially support that right now. Some parts of bridging may continue to work, but probably not all. +
Details in these issues. Hopefully this will be more fully supported in the future. +
Bridgy Fed also doesn't support migrating an existing account into it to become a bridged account, or migrating a bridged account out to be a normal account. Those are unlikely to be supported, even in the future. +
Sorry, no, Bridgy Fed doesn't support this. It would be difficult to manage and resolve the conflicts that would inevitably arise between bridging and interactive use. This would also take a huge amount of effort; we'd have to build a full-fledged, interactive fediverse instance, Bluesky PDS, web server CMS, etc, on top of the current bridge functionality. +
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Bluesky currently limits videos to 60 seconds, 50MB, and .mp4, .mpeg, .webm, or .mov. If you're seeing a "Video not found. Retry" error, the original video may not satisfy those requirements.
+Yes! First, you'll need your bridged account's DID. You can get it by DMing did to the Bluesky Bridgy Fed bot account (eg @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy), or go to your user page and click the next to to your bridged Bluesky account link.
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Then you'll need to connect your domain to your bridged Bluesky account, either with DNS or HTTP. Once you're done, you can check your work here. +
Finally, if you're on the fediverse, DM username [domain] to @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy. If you're on the web, click the button on your user page.
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If a post bridged into Bluesky is truncated, it will include an embed with a link to the original post. You can also find the original post link indirectly by opening the author's profile and following the link in their bio to their original account. +
For developers, Bridgy Fed includes the full text and URL for bridged posts and profiles inside their AT Protocol records. Bridged app.bsky.actor.profile records have bridgyOriginalDescription and bridgyOriginalUrl fields, and bridged app.bsky.feed.post records have bridgyOriginalText and bridgyOriginalUrl fields. Here's an example:
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+{
+ "$type": "app.bsky.feed.post",
+ "text": "This is a very long post that got cut off and ...",
+ "bridgyOriginalText": "<p>This is a very long post that got cut off and has more to say.</p>",
+ "bridgyOriginalUrl": "https://indieweb.social/@snarfed/abc123",
+ "..."
+}
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+Nothing! Bridgy Fed is small, and it doesn't cost much to run. I don't need or want donations, paying customers, ads, venture capital, or any other form of money. I spend far more on coffee than on hosting Bridgy Fed, and it would have to grow 10-100x for that to change meaningfully. If that happens, I'll celebrate, and continue running it as is. I have experience scaling services like these as personal projects. I'm in the fortunate position to be able to do that; it's one way I try to give back to the open web and the decentralized social ecosystem.
+Nothing! Bridgy Fed is small, and it doesn't cost much to run. I don't need or want donations, paying customers, ads, venture capital, or any other form of money. Hosting costs are manageable right now, and it would have to grow 10-100x for that to change meaningfully. If that happens, I'll celebrate, and I'll still continue running it as is. I have experience scaling services like these as personal projects. I'm in the fortunate position to be able to do that; it's one way I try to give back to the open web and the decentralized social ecosystem.
If you really want to contribute, file an issue or send a pull request, or donate to your network or instance of choice!