Happy New Year! Hope you all had a good holiday. It’s shaping up to be a great year on the open social web! We’ve been busy working on new features, internal improvements, bug fixes, and exploring new networks over the last couple months. Here are the noticeable changes on the bridge since our last update: * DM notifications for interactions from non-bridged users (more) * Mastodon to Bluesky support in Bounce (more) * Expand blocking to Bluesky blocklists, multiple at once, web UI, and more… * Support setting Bluesky handle back to the default `*.ap.brid.gy` (more) * More support for fediverse => Bluesky pinned posts * Make images/videos on Bluesky more reliable: * Refresh them periodically * Handle the same file at multiple URLs * Upgraded to a paid CloudImage account for proxying Threads images/videos * Customize Bluesky labels based on keywords in fediverse content warning (thanks @KDederichs!) * Improve GoToSocial compatibility * Bridge Web Monetization wallet addresses * For Bluesky profiles bridged to the fediverse, make the link back to Bluesky “verified” (green check) in Mastodon * Add support for new (invisible) `website` field in Bluesky profiles * Web UI: improve handling of IDNs (domain names with emoji) and punycode * RSS feeds: support `application/rdf+xml` * Web UI: reload profile on login Bug fixes: * …for race condition on writing to Bluesky repos * …for bridging Bluesky handle changes to fediverse Webfinger address * …for bridging web posts, replies, etc after we’ve already seen them * …for deleting bridged fediverse profiles on some servers * …for bridging Bluesky profile pictures to the fediverse * …for links in post text * When there’s an unbridged dependency, only skip that one protocol, not all * Add missing `PropertyValue` in AS2 `@context` * …for duplicated images in posts bridged to Bluesky Internal: * Bluesky: * Reliability improvements for firehose server/client * Scale past ~10qps bottleneck in allocating sequence numbers (more) * implement `listBlobs` * Expand continuous deploy flags * Various cost optimizations added up to savings of 40-50%: 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!