Simple bots, updates to Loops, and Flipboard takes over some automated RSS accounts.
The News
The upcoming shutdown of the botsin.space server has lead to some renewed experimentation and development work around bots on the fediverse. Terence Eden has built a bot to be as simple as possible, needing only 2 files to run. This bot can be bridged to Bluesky as well.
Some more updates on Loops, with some crucial missing features now being added: tapping the Home button brings you to the top of the feed, a pull to refresh, and tabs for notification, search and explore. Loops