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Cassian [main]<p>I'm migrating the Gender Census account from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lgbt.io/@gendercensus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gendercensus@lgbt.io</span></a></span> to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediverse.gendercensus.com/@gendercensus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gendercensus@fediverse.gendercensus.com</span></a></span> and I have to say, it is going much smoother than last time I tried to migrate accounts on Mastodon. :)</p><p>Nice one, developers!</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/MastoMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoMeta</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDev</span></a></p>
Matt ⁂ 🇳🇴 🇺🇦<p>I know PixelFed exists but it's all just text and video and images at the end of the day - so what if the Mastodon interface just looked like Instagram and then you could sign in using your existing Mastodon account... a concept:</p><p><a href="https://coxy.co/instadon/v3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">coxy.co/instadon/v3</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>This is just hacked together real quick, but should I work on this to make it a real thing?</p><p><a href="https://oslo.town/tags/PixelFed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PixelFed</span></a> <a href="https://oslo.town/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://oslo.town/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> <a href="https://oslo.town/tags/PhotoSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhotoSharing</span></a> <a href="https://oslo.town/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDev</span></a> <a href="https://oslo.town/tags/Instadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Instadon</span></a></p>
Tuba<p>- Favorite Hashtags on the sidebar<br>- Post Redrafting<br>- Endorsing accounts and featuring hashtags<br>- More keyboard shortcuts<br>- Settings overhaul<br>- Audio visualizer optimizations<br>- Report forwarding to more involved instances when supported<br>- Enabled more features for Pleroma<br>- Windows ARM builds<br>- More fluid horizontal lists like emoji reactions and post hashtags<br>- Many critical bug fixes and design improvements<br>- Updated the website</p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNOME</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/GTK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GTK</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Vala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vala</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDev</span></a></p>
echo ✨<p>me: ah yes this will be a simple PR brb<br>me six hours later: 🫠</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/mastodev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodev</span></a></p>
Pachli<p>## Fixes</p><p>- Cosmetic UI adjustments<br>- Fixed assorted crashes</p><p>## Translations</p><p>- Estonian, Finnish, German, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Tamil</p><p>More at <a href="https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/07/30/2.15.0-release.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pachli.app/pachli/2025/07/30/2</span><span class="invisible">.15.0-release.html</span></a> and <a href="https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/07/30/2.15.1-release.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pachli.app/pachli/2025/07/30/2</span><span class="invisible">.15.1-release.html</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/androiddev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>androiddev</span></a></p>
echo ✨<p>another day in the emoji mines well spent!</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/mastodev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodev</span></a></p>
halcy​ :icosahedron:<p>Not sure if this will break down immediately (it probably will), but if it managed to work for a bit, then please enjoy this slightly silly embed (open in your instances web interface)</p><p><a href="https://mastolab.kal-tsit.halcy.de/grid/?try2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastolab.kal-tsit.halcy.de/gri</span><span class="invisible">d/?try2</span></a></p><p><a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/mastodev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodev</span></a></p>
Chee Aun 🤔<p>👀 Interesting <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/35584" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p</span><span class="invisible">ull/35584</span></a></p><p>The other states combined into a single "Post unavailable" copy 🤔</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDesign</span></a></p>
Chee Aun 🤔<p>Interesting 🤔 <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@pachli" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pachli</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@pachli/114927224802980952" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@pachli/114927</span><span class="invisible">224802980952</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDev</span></a></p>
Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)<p>In general I try not to swear so much these days, but...</p><p>... why the FUCK is this set to "Everyone" by default?</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/consent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consent</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDev</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/onlineSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onlineSafety</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/optIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>optIn</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/quotePosts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotePosts</span></a></p>
Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@festal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>festal</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@katzenberger" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>katzenberger</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gargron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Gargron</span></a></span> It should be possible to not allow <a href="https://mas.to/tags/quotePosts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotePosts</span></a> at all, and it should be the default behaviour with allowing quote posts being <a href="https://mas.to/tags/optIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>optIn</span></a>. </p><p>It's what he promised. It's what he should deliver. And while he has a proven history of ignoring even the best supported change requests in the Mastodon Github, it should be the top issue until it is fixed.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/consent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consent</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDev</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a></p>
echo ✨<p>woot, my emoji rendering system seems to be working okay! loaded it onto my dev server and thankfully i follow a lot of trans people who love lots of emoji in their profiles 😆 </p><p>cannot WAIT to get to the picker tho. hiding custom emoji groups is what i dream of 🤩 </p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/mastodev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodev</span></a></p>
Gregory<p>After implementing partial support for Mastodon's FEP-044f quote post authorization in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Smithereen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Smithereen</span></a>, I realized that this flow with sending a "*Request" activity and receiving a corresponding Accept{*Request} is nothing but an RPC mechanism.</p><p>So now Smithereen also uses TopicCreationRequest and TopicRenameRequest for discussion boards in groups, which are almost finished, btw.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodev</span></a></p>
echo ✨<p>one of these days i need to debug scroll smoothness on mobile web</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/mastodev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodev</span></a></p>
Niko Trimmel<p>Auch ganz cool:</p><p>Die Organisatoren bieten eine API an, mit der die Entwickler von Fediverse-Apps/Clients die Info zum Event in ihre UI einbinden können:</p><p><a href="https://sc07.dev/fediverse.events/fediverse.events-api/-/wikis/home" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sc07.dev/fediverse.events/fedi</span><span class="invisible">verse.events-api/-/wikis/home</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/Canvas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canvas</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/canvas2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canvas2025</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/fediverseevents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverseevents</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/fedidev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fedidev</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/mastoadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoadmin</span></a> <a href="https://tyrol.social/tags/mastodev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodev</span></a></p>
Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> 4.4 also adjusts the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/altText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>altText</span></a> entry box to make both the text box and the display of the image you're describing smaller, putting them one on top of the other in the desktop site despite most computer screens being landscape. </p><p>Why? Change for the sake of change, and a deterioration of functionality many users rely on for <a href="https://mas.to/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDev</span></a></p>
Tommi 🤯 → WHY 📞9848<p><a href="https://pan.rent" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pan.rent</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> has been down for the last ~36 hours. Probably, this happened because of an error during an upgrade to Mastodon Glitch 4.4.0. We are back now, running version 4.5.0-alpha (👀).</p><p>Thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bologna.one/@victorvandort" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>victorvandort</span></a></span> for dealing with this.</p><p>Even though Pan is a tiny volunteer-run instance, so many hours of downtime should never be happening. We are discussing about how to avoid such long outages in the future.</p><p><a href="https://pan.rent/tags/admin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>admin</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDev</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/FediAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/FediDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediDev</span></a></p>
Chee Aun 🤔<p>Quote post permutations.</p><p>- Docs on quote states: <a href="https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/Quote/#state" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.joinmastodon.org/entities</span><span class="invisible">/Quote/#state</span></a><br>- Related PR: <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/34738" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p</span><span class="invisible">ull/34738</span></a><br>- Reference of text copies from Mastodon: <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/c442589593ac39f1f36c972890850c30efd3ca1b/app/javascript/mastodon/locales/en.json#L875-L880" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/b</span><span class="invisible">lob/c442589593ac39f1f36c972890850c30efd3ca1b/app/javascript/mastodon/locales/en.json#L875-L880</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhanpySocialDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhanpySocialDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDev</span></a></p>
Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)<p>Also, how do I turn off the carousel that hides all of my pinned posts bar one? </p><p>When I pin posts it's because *I want people to see them*. Why the hell would I want almost all of them to be hidden?</p><p>Why was this feature rolled out by default instead of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/optIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>optIn</span></a>? </p><p>(Edit — more related frustration here: <a href="https://mas.to/@tokyo_0/114831976505460262" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mas.to/@tokyo_0/11483197650546</span><span class="invisible">0262</span></a>)</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/consent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consent</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDev</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a></p>
Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)<p>In <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> 4.4 they've added the horrible popup window from <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> when you try to click on a <a href="https://mas.to/tags/hashtag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hashtag</span></a>.</p><p>If I wanted to do something weird with the hashtag, I'd right click it. Now I need to make an extra click every single time I just want to view the posts. It's one of the worst features of Bluesky, and they've added it into Mastodon.</p><p>It doesn't even do anything useful like tell you if you're following the hashtag.</p><p>Every time they update the Mastodon UI they make it worse. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDev</span></a></p>