Ryan Barrett

@qazmlp yes! Do you know of any good technical docs on relays? What the protocol and format are, which activities are expected - ie is it just `Create`s for posts,...

> The most important aspect from my POV is creating critical mass. Unless I can assume that _most_ users on one network are able to interact with _most_ users on...

Thank you @Tamschi! @pcottle, @Tamschi knows the current Bridgy Fed architecture well, all the info here so far is spot on. > Bluesky users can't natively look up a remote...

Ooh, thanks for filing! Bridgy Fed currently runs on Python 3.12, but this is useful to know.

App Engine now supports Python 3.13! Could look at this now. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/lifecycle/support-schedule#python https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/lifecycle/support-schedule#python

Tried this just now, hit a few build failures, notably libipld 1.2.3 uses PyO3 v0.21.0-beta.0, which doesn't support Python 3.13. [libipld 2.0 upgraded to PyO3 0.22.2.](https://github.com/MarshalX/python-libipld/releases/tag/v2.0.0) ``` × Building wheel...

Also cffi 1.16.0: ``` × Building wheel for cffi (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> [61 lines of output] /private/var/folders/bm/jss268fd7xn10bjj9h9vvb9c0000gp/T/pip-build-env-y81sf9bo/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:759: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: License classifiers are deprecated. !!...

Interesting, good point! GIFs are just external embeds in Bluesky records, I thought we handled those, but we don't do anything special for GIFs, so maybe we need to. Example...

Ah, that blob isn't the GIF itself, it's the thumbnail, which is a JPEG. 😁

Hmm, thanks for the feedback! You're absolutely right about finding user pages, that's https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1043. Out of curiosity, could you say more about how splitting the doc into multiple pages would...