WriteFreely compatibility?

[picklemaster360]

Hi, I have a self-hosted WriteFreely blog that supports supports RSS as well as providing an ActivityPub-compatible handle that fedi users can follow. I would like to allow people on bluesky to follow it if possible. (I don't have a mastodon or bluesky account). Is this currently possible? I have pasted my url into the "I have a website" section of the bridgy site but it says it's invalid. Maybe I'm missing something?

[snarfed]

Good question! There are a couple different issues here. For bridging a web site, it's #1246. Right now we don't have a way for you to enable bridging for individual networks, eg Bluesky but not fediverse. It's all or nothing, at least for web sites self serve. Ideally we'd let you choose which networks to bridge to!

For bridging a fediverse account, we can do that, but you enable bridging for your account by following @bsky.brid.gy, or DMing it start or yes, or logging into https://fed.brid.gy/ and enabling it in the UI. Sounds like none of those currently work for WriteFreely?

[picklemaster360]

Thanks for the reply!

Right now we don't have a way for you to enable bridging for individual networks, eg Bluesky but not fediverse. It's all or nothing

I am ok with the "all" in "all or nothing"

For bridging a fediverse account, we can do that, but you enable bridging for your account by following @bsky.brid.gy, or DMing it start or yes,

this won't work because writefreely is a blog engine and doesn't support following or DMing.

or logging into https://fed.brid.gy/ and enabling it in the UI. Sounds like none of those currently work for WriteFreely?

the tool at https://fed.brid.gy/web-site doesn't recognize my site as valid (can't see the rss feed?) the rss feed is linked via the head tag in the usual way, and is detected by other RSS readers fine.

[snarfed]

I am ok with the "all" in "all or nothing"
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the tool at https://fed.brid.gy/web-site doesn't recognize my site as valid

This is probably because your site currently serves its own Webfinger and ActivityPub. We detect that and short circuit out, since we don't yet have opt in per-protocol for web sites, and we don't want to collide with sites that already federate out to the fediverse themselves.

[snarfed]

@picklemaster360 one thing you could try is disabling WriteFreely's federation: https://discuss.write.as/search?q=Disable%20federation