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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 🤯<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>
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No one is going to see the tiny arrow controls and scroll sideways through the multiple pinned posts. They're just going to see the top one. Over time people will stop pinning any more than one post because there will be no point, and #Mastodon will be just the same as every other generic social media platform.

The pinned post carousel absolutely should have been an option in the settings, not swept across the board as a default.

In #Mastodon 4.4 they've added the horrible popup window from #Bluesky when you try to click on a #hashtag.

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.

It doesn't even do anything useful like tell you if you're following the hashtag.

Every time they update the Mastodon UI they make it worse.

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@nyquildotorg #Mastodon and #ActivityPub needs a mechanism where domain names can be recycled. The fact that WordPress alone has no mechanism to allow a domain to exit the fediverse is reason enough. Sometimes servers get bricked and there is no way to go back and self-destruct.

Domains could be validated with a text record in the DNS by the owner of the domain name. If text record ActivityPubKill is true, then it should be trusted as so and defederated.

I'm not sure how this could be done, I don't know the ins and out. Maybe software packages could poll the DNS of failing federated servers and look for a universal or software specific kill tag or a file could be placed somewhere on a server that it looks for when a server fails, esp after 7 days.

Either way, a dns entry or a file on a physical server can be a trusted source as it takes elevated permission by someone in charge of a domain to usually do such a thing. #MastoDev #MastoAdmin

# Pachli 2.14.0 is released

## New features

- Restore the user's position in lists
- Faster account switching
- An "Account Management" UI

## Fixes include

- Delete cached notifications when deleting server notifications
- Don't crash on severed relationship notifications or when cancelling image loads

## Translations

- Chinese, Estonian, Finnish, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Tamil

More at pachli.app/pachli/2025/06/30/2

Pachli · Pachli 2.14.0 releasedPachli 2.14.0 is now available. This release remembers your reading position in lists, adds a new UI for managing your accounts, and more.

Saw this "Followed hashtags" collapsible list on mastodon.social (v4.4.0 nightly), wondering how long the list of hashtags will be.

Turns out it's hard-coded to 4 🤷‍♂️
- Initial PR: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p
- Latest change (June 23rd): github.com/mastodon/mastodon/b

There's no limit set for lists tho' (its API doesn't have `limit` too)

#fediDev #mastodev #nodeinfo

do any fedi client devs know how to get a nodeinfo request to work? in the browser i receive JSON, while with my client i receive an HTML error saying use the web or a client.

EDIT: solved, you just have to not fuck everything up in your request (no special details required).

#fediDev #mastoDev

fedi instances should announce their server software name and its repo URL in /api/v1/instance. i like looking up what your instance is running, not just guessing (from the "version" field, or the presence/absence of other fields)...?

How feasible would it be to have posts from specific servers be highlighted in a specific color on #Mastodon?
For example I don't mind reading posts from the bluesky bridge but I don't really want to interact with them. If they were highlighted in blue or something, that would be helpful..
#MastoDev (is that a thing?)

Do you use lists?

Today's #Pachli Current release improves their usability by remembering your reading position in the list, similarly to how it behaves on the Home and Notifications timelines.

Lists can be a great way to move content from some people you follow out of your home timeline and into a dedicated space, and of course, each list can be added to its own tab.

I'm feeling a bit stuck and could use some help. The situation is a bit messy because more than half of my followers are still on my Mastodon account, while the rest are here. The migration process seems to have hit a snag and isn't progressing like it should. On top of that, the feature to import the list of accounts I follow isn't working correctly. I've been trying to follow over 5,000 accounts, but Akkoma has only imported around 3,000. This discrepancy is pretty big and quite frustrating.

After giving it some thought, I believe the main issue lies with Akkoma. If anyone has any tips or insights, I'd really appreciate it!

#akkoma #mastodon #fediverse #migration #pleroma #help #fedi #askfedi #mastodondev #mastodev #boost