Implementing POSSE with Bridgy Fed

Been experimenting with Bridgy Fed today. It’s a pretty neat tool if you want to connect your personal site to both Bluesky and the fediverse at the same time. The setup was straightforward and the docs were great! I have now got my posts and notes showing up on Bluesky at wtoa.dev without having to manually copy anything over.

This site runs on Bridgetown. For Bridgy Fed to work properly, I needed an RSS feed so it could pick up new content automatically. Luckily there’s a RSS feed plugin that does exactly that.

One thing I ran into is that the plugin doesn’t combine different collections into a single feed. Since I have both posts and notes, I ended combining them all together as posts but with different categories that I can separate them with when I am generating the lists of posts / notes.

Now that the feeds are set up, Bridgy Fed can discover new content as soon as I publish it. If you plan to do this too, make sure you have webmentions working so you can receive and show interactions from the fediverse / Bluesky on your own site.