snarfed / bridgy-fed

🌉 A bridge between decentralized social network protocols
https://fed.brid.gy
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User discovery for push based protocols #647

Closed snarfed closed 1 year ago

snarfed commented 1 year ago

In some protocols, user discovery is pull based: their user discovery UX flows make external requests that we can hook into.

However, other protocols are push based, ie their user discovery UX flows are entirely internal, so we have no way to inject new users bridged from other protocols on the fly:

So, how do we surface bridged users into ATProto or Nostr user search?

I see just two options so far:

snarfed commented 1 year ago

ATProto discussion: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1650

snarfed commented 1 year ago

Added a /bridge-user UI page for this.