I really like Garrick’s method of adding Bluesky comments to a Quarto-based blog. I’m already wired up to use Bridgy at my personal blog and Quarto datablog, and enabling it to connect to Bluesky was just a matter of adding the connection with an app-specific password. The difference between using webmentions versus the direct point-to-point link that Garrick and others have implemented is something to consider: it looks like the direct feed from Bluesky, at least, preserves a lot more of the continuity of a thread, while the webmentions approach (especially using Bridgy) potentially makes gathering comments a little more seamless in the POSSE sense by not requiring the link back to the original post.

At prettygoodhat, I needed one template change to insert the bluesky syndication link if specified in the post’s front matter. In single.html:

{{ if (isset .Params "blueskylink") }}
<a class="u-syndication" style="display: none" href="{{ .Params.blueskylink}}">{{ .Params.blueskylink}}</a>
{{ end }}

This adds the stub for the syndication link if one is found with the blueskylink id in the post’s header, and that should be all it takes for Bridgy to collect replies associated with the corresponding post.

Garrick’s extension gives me a thought on improving my own hookup of Bridgy to Quarto, too; that may be the right way to go over at the ol’ datablog.