For this weekend's coding project, I built a tiny single-user Bluesky→ActivityPub one-way bridge I named “Pinhole”. If there's someone on Bluesky whose posts you want in your Mastodon feed, you can download and run it yourself: :fietkau_software: https://fietkau.software/pinhole
Caveats: 1. I intentionally built it anti-scalable: you can use it to follow one Bluesky account from one fedi account, and that's it. 2. You need experience with web servers.
New feature in Mastodon 4.2 that I am very happy about: non-dismissable and very red notices for server admins when there is a new security update available.
We also sent emails to admin. This is all done locally by your instance, it (anonymously) fetches the available updates from the central api.joinmastodon.org every 30 minutes.
@renchap I'm so happy to see this! Of course security updates are announced by @MastodonEngineering and if you follow the project in GitHub you will receive notifications, too... But having the banner is probably the most reliable way of notifying :) It doesn't take any action of the admin. It's just there by default. Nice!
Working on private messages in #Smithereen and I'm wondering how much sense CWs make for them. From Mastodon's PoV, "private messages" are just posts. They thus share all the same properties. In my implementation, however, messages are distinct from posts, both in the UI and in the database. In my UI I don't have anywhere to display that content warning as a spoiler without it being super awkward. I can use it as a subject line however 🤔