Hi Bridgy Fed fans! It’s time for another status update, headlined by two big new features.
First, you can now use custom domain handles on accounts bridged into Bluesky! Web sites and fediverse accounts can both do this; click through for instructions. Here’s an example. We’ve been excited about this for a while, we hope it makes bridged accounts feel a bit more like first class citizens.
Second, if you deactivate bridging to Bluesky, you can now undo it and bring back your bridged account! Just un-block and re-follow the bot, or for a web site, file an issue or ping me. This is supported if you first deactivated after 2024-10-22; we’re still working on the rest.
I’m also excited that Tamschi has generously volunteered to help triage issues and coordinate development. He’s been a valuable presence on the project for a while now. Please give him a warm welcome!
Oh, and I got distracted for a bit and built a labeler that emits custom self-labels, then promptly realized that custom self-labels probably aren’t allowed, even though Bridgy Fed has been using them since launch. Ah well!
Lots more since last time too:
- Add original account ids to Bluesky DID documents
- Scale new user signup better
- Fix nasty rare bug that bridged reposts with the wrong original post
- Translate fediverse @-mentions to webmentions
- Better error handling in RSS/Atom feed processing
- Improve Sharkey/Misskey compatibility with images in posts and profile banners
- Improve GoToSocial compatibility (more)
- Detect and handle Bluesky handle changes better
- Bridge videos into Bluesky more efficiently
- Significantly improve Bluesky firehose efficiency
- Bluesky => fediverse: link mentions of non-bridged users to their bsky.app profile
- Improve handling of deleted fediverse accounts
- Full AT Protocol lexicon schema validation
- …and lots more bug fixes and internal improvements
As usual, feel free to ping me with feedback, questions, and bug reports. You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what I’m currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!
