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Re:Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public pro... by zozbot234 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:17AM (#21387404)
> It's common, in many types of federated reimplementations of non-federated sites, to create special-case bridges that allow treating a large non-federated site as if it were following the federation protocol

The non-federated site has to play along with the federation standard for this to work. Just like Compuserve or AOL, which provided both proprietary "walled gardens" and (increasingly over time) interoperability with federated services like e-mail.

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Re:Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public pro... by JoshTriplett on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @12:47PM (#21389221)
It doesn't have to play along; it just has to have enough of an API to extract the necessary information. The idea of the bridge is to translate between the standard everyone else speaks and the API of the big non-federated site most people use.
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