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BridgyBridgy is an open source project and proxy that implements backfeed and POSSE as a service. Bridgy sends webmentions for comments, likes, etc. on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, and Flickr. It can also POSSE posts, comments/replies, retweets, likes/favorites, and event RSVPs to Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. Finally, it adds webmention support to Blogger, Tumblr, and WordPress.com blogs. How to useOnce you OAuth into Brid.gy, Bridgy polls your silo posts, discovers original post links, and sends comments to those links as webmentions. It also serves the silo posts, comments, likes, etc. as microformats2 for webmention targets to read. Example silo-post-as-microformats for reference:
WhyBackfeedBridgy is the fastest way to implement backfeed on your site. Once you have webmention receiving support implemented on your indieweb site, OAuth into Bridgy and it will send webmentions to your posts for any activity on POSSEd copies of those posts. Send silo interactionsAfter you sign up, Bridgy sends all responses to your posts back to your site and other sites that support webmentions. The recipients don't need to be signed up themselves; Bridgy sends webmentions to any server that supports them. Implementation detailsMore implementation details here. Generating h-cards from silo profilesIf your silo profile includes your web site URL, it's included in the h-card that Bridgy generates instead of your silo profile URL, which means that Bridgy comments rendered on original posts will (usually) link directly to your web site. As an example, see the second and third comments here. This is another step toward making individual web sites the real UX and using silos just as invisible infrastructure (pubsub, friend graphs, etc). Custom Facebook original-post-discoveryFacebook supports POSSEing with custom "See Original" links. Bridgy detects these and correctly sends comments and likes to the linked post. posse-post-discovery on content with no backlinksAs of 2014-04-26, Bridgy uses posse-post-discovery to find original posts, even when the syndicated post does not or cannot include a permalink/citation. (as long as users publish rel-syndication links on their own site). IndieWeb ExamplesHere are some examples of IndieWeb community members using Bridgy along with posts with responses generated by Bridgy: Aaron PareckiAaron Parecki on his notes posts on aaronparecki.com using p3k since 2013-??-??. E.g. AnomaLilyAnomaLily on anomalily.net E.g. Barry FrostBarry Frost on barryfrost.com since 2013-??-??. E.g. CaseorganicAmber Case on caseorganic.com since 2013-??-??. E.g.
Christope DuchampUser:Christopheducamp.com on christopheducamp.com since 2013-??-??. E.g. Denton JacobsErin Jo RichleyJoschi KuphalMatthias PfefferleRyan BarrettBen WerdmüllerFelix Schwenzel(Felix Schwenzel) Barnaby WaltersgRegor Morrill
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Open SourceBridgy source is maintained on GitHub: Statistics
HistoryRyan started working on Bridgy in the summer of 2011, launched the first (WordPress-only) version on 2012-01-08, and relaunched it with webmention support on 2013-12-09. Previous FeaturesPublish Facebook LikeFrom ????-??-?? to 2015-02-14, Bridgy Publish supported POSSEing of like posts of Facebook posts, to "likes" directly on the Facebook posts themselves. In a round of API changes, Facebook broke the ability to do this, and thus feature was disabled.[1] This was the first ever regression of Bridgy Publish functionality, due directly to a change by a silo. There is no evidence to suggest this was a deliberately breaking change.[2] FAQHow can I pay for BridgyQ: How can I ever return the favor of Bridgy? Or pay back for it? A:
Could Bridgy be decentralizedQ: Could Bridgy be decentralized / decentralised / distributed / federated ? A: Yes, you can for yourself.
There are also other backfeed implementations. What about links posted by othersQ: Does Bridgy send notifications for links to your site posted by others? E.g. is effectively a comment on: And it would be handy to receive it as such. A: Yes! Details. How do I recrawl my siteQ: How do I get Bridgy to recrawl my site, like if I’ve updated my h-feed? A: Click a "retry" / "reload" button in the Responses list.
Note: If Bridgy has never found syndication link from your site to that specific silo, it may be more reluctant to recrawl your site. How do I re-authQ: How do I re-auth Bridgy with various silos? A:
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