Bluesky Profile banners not visible on Misskey/Sharkey

[Donad678]

I noticed that profile banners from Bluesky users are not visible on my Sharkey instance and after trying the same user on a remote misskey instance I got the same problem. On Mastodon the profile banner appears properly.

[Tamschi]

This happens because Bridgy Fed serves an array as image, which is permitted both for icon and image.
Misskey fails to handle that here. I'll submit a patch to fix that.

That said, I think it would make sense for Bridgy Fed to serve only the banner as image while the avatar is the icon.

[snarfed]

Thank you for the sleuthing @Tamschi!

[Tamschi]

My fix was just merged, so it should start working in Misskey 2024.10.2-alpha.2 or later (as well as any forks, eventually).

There may be a delay for already-cached profiles, but if I'm not mistaken you can refresh a profile on followers' instances through Bridgy Fed by editing it on Bluesky.

[Tamschi]

@snarfed Do you consider this closed or do you want to adjust how profiles are translated?

I don't think there is any popular software where this would cause issues, but it may be a bit odd if the avatar appears in a banner rotation if an instance eventually supports multiple.

[snarfed]

Congrats on getting that fix merged @Tamschi! I'm ok to close this now.