Hi everyone! It’s been a while since last time, and we’ve been busy, so here’s another Bridgy Fed status update.
First, we’ve made progress on cutting costs. They’re down by half from their peak back in mid Nov, even though our user base and load has roughly doubled since then. I still think I can get them lower, but for now, I’m ok with where we are.
We’re also still pushing A New Social forward. Paperwork, people, and plans (ie roadmap), oh my. More when we know it!
Other than that, I wrote up a developer design doc, and I managed to fix some bugs and add some features. Here are a few:
- New
blockandunblockDM commands to block/unblock accounts that aren’t bridged - Improved PixelFed compatibility
- Improved UI and accessibility of finding user pages and rendering them
- Added aspect ratio for images in Bluesky
- Bug fixes for DM command parsing, web site feed polling, large objects
- Skip blank posts, old backdated posts, follow spam
- Store activities more efficiently
- ATProto: finish
com.atproto.repo.describeRepo, validate XRPC call parameters, refresh DID docs more often - Add per-protocol user counts to nodeinfo
As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports. You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!
So it means 48767 Bsky users are federated, right?#^https://fed.brid.gy/nodeinfo.json “metadata”: { “users”: { “activitypub”: 26643, “atprotocol”: 48767, “webmention”: 14563 } },
nodeinfo.json
@snarfed.org thanks for your continued work on this!
@snarfed.org Bridgy Fed is the most effective argument I have in convincing people to join the social web instead of Bluesky. Thank you for the continued development and operation of it!
@snarfed.org Thanks again for all the hard work 💪
@snarfed.org Hi!
My birdged pixelfed is not updating the a avatar, name, and description on Bsky’s end. Is there something I need to do to push it? A command I can send? (My pixelfed also have a custom bsky handle.)
Fediverse: @youronlyone@pixelfed.social
ATmosphere: @gallery.youronly.one
Also, just a random question, does this update include a secret feature 🤞🏽, custom domain for bridged Threads accounts via public reply commands?
🙇🏽
@snarfed.org oh wow the NodeInfo news is my favorite part of this https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1509