Bridgy
Connect personal websites to social networks
Bridgy is a service, also self-hostable, that connects personal websites to social networks, sending comments, likes, and reshares back to your own site and supporting the IndieWeb POSSE workflow.
Key features
- Connect websites to social networks
- IndieWeb POSSE support
- Backfeeds comments and likes
Strengths
- Released under the CC0-1.0 license
- Written in Python
- Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM
Is Bridgy secure?
OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Bridgy's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.
Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.
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