TL;DR: Bridgy Fed is forming a non-profit entity to carry it forwards.
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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Oh, the irony:
https://snarfed.org/2023-11-27_re-introducing-bridgy-fed
I’ve self-funded Bridgy classic for 12 years and Bridgy Fed for 6 years so far, and I can continue indefinitely. I have experience scaling services like these as personal projects. I care about and believe in decentralized social networks
Centralized love for decentralized networks 🙄
I'm bridging my main Mastodon account with bluesky, but I'm fully expecting this service to disappear soon enough. I remember when Twitter, Facebook, and a bunch of other sites allowed crossposting until someone realised they were driving traffic away from their own site and shut it down. I think it was Facebook. I can't remember. Same is likely to happen here, or they'll charge an exorbitant fee for API access like Reddit. For now though, it kinda works.
I used to interact with Facebook via email. That didn't last. But neither did my use of Facebook.
~~It's just an email newsletter. There is no other content on the site.~~
Click on "Hello, Social Web 👋🏼" it's actually a link to a blog post even if it just looks like part of the landing page.