Samuel
I'm guessing bridgy doesn't implement oauth (which I mean, fair enough, it's not a full implementation)
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Samuel
yeah, that's on bridgy to implement oauth. seems like a big undertaking but would be cool!
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Corey Quinn
Less "implement" and more "not break other clients." 1. I set up a Bsky account using bridgy. 2. I use that account normally. Now I try to use that account with Client Foo, a bsky client that uses OAuth instead of app passwords. 3. That account will fail to authenticate for Client Foo.
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Samuel
@samuel.fm
well if bridgy is your PDS, you need your PDS to implement oauth to do oauth. bridgy is an incomplete PDS implementation. obviously it is good to have and yes I agree it would be nice if bridgy had it you can always migrate your account to a PDS running our PDS software if you need oauth
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Corey Quinn
That does make some sense. I'm just wondering how to construct an error flow that doesn't send future developers down the same rabbit hole I just climbed out of!
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Ryan
It is intentional that you can't log in and use bridged accounts directly, via either password or OAuth, fed.brid.gy/docs#use-lik... ...but that doesn't prevent other lexicons! I'm excited to get to those eventually, github.com/snarfed/brid...
support non-Bluesky ATProto apps, eg Whitewind · Issue #1178 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
https://whtwnd.com/ is an early third party ATProto service with its own lexicons (for long form writing) and maybe appview? We should test interop! I tried liking a post, https://snarfed.org/2024-...
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Boris
Wouldn’t you need to login to whtwnd to use it? (Oh god, OAuth forwarding / proxying eg to a home Mastodon instance…)
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Ryan
We'd just need to implement those other lexicons in Bridgy Fed itself, right? Eg we'd bridge WordPress blog posts to Whitewind post records, Mobilizon events to Smoke Signal event records, etc.
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Boris
I was more thinking along the lines of having a functional AT Proto account on "this side" -- you're already storing repos, so if you allow for login, then you can store any kind of Lexicon. What you're suggesting feels like cross posting with extra steps. Hmm. Have to think on this.
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Ryan
Ah. Yeah that's fed.brid.gy/docs#use-lik... again; we deliberately don't support that, by design. It would add too much complexity and likelihood of conflicts that we couldn't easily resolve. You could do it with a standalone arroba PDS though!
Corey Quinn
Me? Nothing. Someone else tried to use that account to log into a thing I’m building and it exploded.
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midwest emo fan
was asking this as well - while it would be super cool to log in to your pds account on bridgy i don't think the devs particularly intended for one to do so,
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Alex Savage
troubleshooting new OAuth implementations is always like being trapped a series of twisty rabbitholes, all alike
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