Bluesky replies via Bridgy: manton.org
@manton.org This deserves a little response test from Bluesky, then!
Clearly, Bluesky and micro.blog have things in common, especially regarding the importance of the domain name and the ability for users to port their data as they wish.
@manton In Alpine, you’ve added that snippet to both individual posts and the index page it appears. Does it need to be in both places for Bridgy to work?
@Mtt I think it’s best on the index page, but in theory Bridgy will also follow permalinks and notice if it’s on the individual posts. In my testing it didn’t seem to be reliable until I added it in both places, though.
@manton I think I’m still confused about cross posting and bridgy. Would putting similar microformats allow bridgy to put replies in for the other cross posted services even without a link back? Is bridgy searching all blog posts every time it sees a reply to a Bluesky post?
@jpayne Yes, Bridgy is crawling your blog every so often and will find the Bluesky links (which are actually at:// URLs currently, so not actually clickable). No need for any links in the Bluesky post itself.
@jpayne As long as there is the link on your blog to the cross-posted Mastodon post. We need to work this into more themes. In the meantime there’s also this help page with the Hugo params… Mastodon links would need to be constructed with the hostname, username, and post ID.
