Images, profiles, and preferences

They say you are the sum of the 5 newsletters you spend the most time with, and, since you're reading this one again – it's probably time to start getting worried.

Last week, we shipped the glorious ability for you to change your ActivityPub handle, so you're no longer stuck with @index. Hundreds of you are now rocking brand new social web identifiers, and looking good doing it.

What's new with ActivityPub?

The big news this week is that you can now upload images to notes, comments, and replies on the social web. Now, when you want to share a quick photo, receipts for your argument, or a dank meme: You can.

Editing your profile

As well as being able to change your social web username, you can now also edit the rest of your social web profile. By default, we set up your profile with the title, description, and icon of your Ghost website. Now you can customize them for the social web, and add an optional cover image.

Sharing to Threads & Bluesky

As discussed last week, Threads and Bluesky require additional steps to display content. Rather than having you figure out what those steps are and then perform them manually, we've simplified the process by turning it into a button you can click.

You can find these new buttons on the new Preferences screen and, once enabled, a shortcut link to view your profile on those services.

That said, this is kind of like a beta of a beta. Betaception, if you will.

If you enable Threads/Bluesky sharing and then change your social web handle afterwards, Threads/Bluesky aren't particularly good at handling that right now. Sometimes things break. We've reported these issues to their respective teams, and hopefully they'll be resolved soon enough.

Nice.

Coming up next, we'll deal with the Fediverse Chick. IYKYK.