Hi everyone! Welcome to another Bridgy Fed status update. Since last time, we’ve been focusing on a big new project that we’re almost ready to start beta testing, but we also managed to ship some smaller features and improvements:

• From the Atmosphere:
  • Support posts with link embed but no text
  • Improve account deactivation/delete handling
  • Fix missed profile updates when you make more than one in a row
• To the Atmosphere: link previews for bsky.app links
• From the fediverse: handle pinned posts in paged collections
• To the fediverse:
  • Serve real outboxes again
  • Speed up delivery for accounts with many followers
  • Preserve line breaks in profile bios
• From the web: ask for confirmation before bridging
• DM notifications:
  • Notify you of responses to replies you send from the web UI
  • Show original posts from Atmosphere users who are only visible to logged in users
• Internal:
  • Security: more hardening against SSRF, XSS, and CSRF attacks
  • Add a load balancer
  • Faster listRepos
  • Real collections in describeRepo
  • Improve firehose reliability
• Switch “Bluesky” to “Atmosphere” in docs, UI, etc

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports, and please support us on Patreon! You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!