Hi everyone! Welcome to another Bridgy Fed status update. We’ve been busy! Lots of new features, other changes, and more big projects still in the works. We’ll do a deeper dive on some of these in an upcoming blog post, but in the meantime, here’s what we’ve shipped since last time:

• New post types and features:
  • Events and RSVPs
  • Spark (sprk.so) videos
  • Bluesky profile links
  • Cooperate better with other bridges and cross-network platforms, eg wafrn
  • New community.lexicon.meta.links Atmosphere lexicon
• Fediverse:
  • Native Mastodon quote posts
  • Native link previews
  • replies collection for filling in missing replies
  • Indicate “only visible to logged in users” on Misskey and other servers that support it
  • Deliver more deletes to in-reply-to posts
  • Work around Mastodon CDNs caching stale pinned posts
  • Fix repeated follows from Pixelfed (thanks Pixelfed team!)
• Atmosphere:
  • Stop adding a profile link to your handle’s domain when there’s no web site there
  • Bug fix for some links to standard.site documents
  • Clarify DM notifications for posts only visible to logged in users
• Web:
  • Support h-feed
  • Remove the [Unofficial] label after setting any custom handle, not just your site’s domain
• Web UI:
  • Show quote posts in embeds
  • Switch web site login to IndieLogin
  • Improve handling of fediverse instances that block us
  • Bug fix for “Original post on None” link on replies sent from the web UI
• Internal:
  • External probes to catch some types of outages faster
  • Faster fediverse outboxes
  • Fewer repeated HTTP fetches

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!