Blogs and social networks talking to each other is still kind of magic. If you’re on the latest version of Micro.blog’s Alpine theme, replies from Bluesky can now flow into Micro.blog via Bridgy. We’ll be updating all the blog themes to support this, or you can modify your theme.
This works by signing into Bridgy so that it knows how to link your blog and your Bluesky account. Then if you have cross-posting enabled to copy blog posts to Bluesky, Bridgy will look for replies and match them up to the canonical version of the blog post. It then sends a webmention to Micro.blog.
In the Alpine theme, I’m telling Bridgy about this relationship using the u-syndication microformat. I have it hidden for now, but it can just as easily be an icon or text link to Bluesky:
{{ if .Params.bluesky }}
<a class="u-syndication" {{ printf "href=%q" .Params.bluesky.url | safeHTMLAttr }} style="display: none;">Also on Bluesky</a>
{{ end }}
Eventually this will all be more automatic. Replies back to Bluesky aren’t possible yet, so you’ll still need to click through to Bluesky to reply. But even now if you don’t mind tinkering, a lot is possible. It’s cool to see replies from Bluesky just show up like normal replies in the Micro.blog timeline. Because Bluesky uses domain names for usernames, they fit naturally into the way Micro.blog thinks about the web.
Terence @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.
Matt Langford 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?
Manton Reece @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.
John Payne 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?
Manton Reece @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.
John Payne thanks. Does that also work for mastodon ?
Manton Reece @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.
John Payne 
Michael Bishop I concur.
Blogs and social networks talking to each other is still kind of magic.
Michael Bishop I concur.
Blogs and social networks talking to each other is still kind of magic.