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Renaud Chaput

Nobody seems to have noticed it but the Mastodon project have been granted funding by @NGIZero in the Entrust fund.

This is amazing, but the best part is that this funding is targeted at implementing… Quote Posts 🎉

This effort started several months ago and we already did some preliminary work, but this will be a big feature for our next 4.4 version. This funding will cover the ActivityPub work, as well as backend, web frontend and official mobile app implementation.

19 April at 20:51 | Open on oisaur.com
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BeAware :veriweed:

@renchap 😬 still no better moderation tools, I see.

19 April at 21:16 | Open on social.beaware.live
Emelia 👸🏻

@renchap @NGIZero yeah, I'm a tad eagle-eyed when it comes to things I'm also involved in.. that and you literally appear above me in the list 😂

19 April at 21:21 | Open on hachyderm.io
Григорий Клюшников

Oh, I'm just working on reposts in Smithereen. Just finished rewriting how Announce works. Support for quote posts was the next thing on my list. Will Mastodon use an existing standard (like Threads for example) or introduce its own?

19 April at 21:31
Renaud Chaput

Mastodon now supports automatic switching between the light and dark theme, depending on your system setting.

It will be available in the upcoming 4.3 version, or is already there if your instance runs the nightly code.

You can switch to this new automatic theme in your Appearance preferences. Instance admins can also set it as the default theme (I just did it on mastodon.social and mastodon.online).

This has been done in github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p, thanks a lot to @nshki for the initial PR!

Mastodon now supports automatic switching between the light and dark theme, depending on your system setting.

It will be available in the upcoming 4.3 version, or is already there if your instance runs the nightly code.

You can switch to this new automatic theme in your Appearance preferences. Instance admins can also set it as the default theme (I just did it on mastodon.social and mastodon.online).
28 March at 13:34 | Open on oisaur.com
Renaud Chaput

Another recently merged feature is the new "severed relationship" notifications. Those will appear when a moderator or admin blocks a user or a whole domain and this action caused you to loose some follows or followers.

Those blocks used to be invisible to users, you maybe saw your follows/followers count decrease but nothing more. Now you can access a list of those blocks, and download a CSV file with the list of impacted accounts.
28 March at 13:43 | Open on oisaur.com
Renaud Chaput

I said it several times, but with Ivory's latest announcement, let me repeat it: we (the Mastodon team) are working on implementing Quote Posts. This is a much more complex feature than showing a preview for a link to a post, which is done at the moment by multiple clients.

It is a complex task and we have been working on defining the feature and the protocol-level details for some time. We are moving forward, and there are fewer hard questions to answers, but progress is there.

13 February at 17:54 | Open on oisaur.com
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Doug Grinbergs

@renchap With all due respect for well-intentioned talented app developers trying to kludge twitter-like quote post in their Mastodon apps, perhaps they might instead pitch in, get on GitHub, help research, answer the tough *platform*, protocol questions, and perhaps discover some others worth asking?😉🙏🤘✌️🖖

13 February at 20:54 | Open on mstdn.social
Doug Grinbergs

@renchap re: quote posting, are we forever stuck with top posting☹️😡 or can we make it logical chronological?😉✌️

To wit, classic email example from us old-timers:
>Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>>Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>>>Top-posting.
>>>>What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

13 February at 21:00 | Open on mstdn.social
Alex Gleason
@renchap Did you know Fedibird implemented quote posts on August 19, 2021? That was 908 days ago, 21,792 hours ago, 1,307,520 minutes ago, or 78,451,200 seconds ago.

See here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/compare/main...fedibird:mastodon:main

It was actually pretty easy to cherry-pick these commits into Truth Social. It took about 1 hour.
@renchap Did you know Fedibird implemented quote posts on August 19, 2021? That was 908 days ago, 21,792 hours ago, 1,307,520 minutes ago, or 78,451,200 seconds ago.

See here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/compare/main...fedibird:mastodon:main
14 February at 0:12 | Open on gleasonator.com
Renaud Chaput

Advice to OSS projects that are exposing a public interface: implement an update checker with very visible admin notifications.

We did this for Mastodon 4.2, and it allowed our latest security release to reach 90% active user adoption in less than 48 hours, which took weeks previously.

Also, you should probably have a written guide on how to do your security releases, I hope I can share ours at some point.

You can check the update checker implemention here: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

Advice to OSS projects that are exposing a public interface: implement an update checker with very visible admin notifications.

We did this for Mastodon 4.2, and it allowed our latest security release to reach 90% active user adoption in less than 48 hours, which took weeks previously.

Also, you should probably have a written guide on how to do your security releases, I hope I can share ours at some point.

9 February at 11:58 | Open on oisaur.com
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axleyjc

@renchap Kudos! Great success story! And real data!

9 February at 19:59 | Open on federate.social
Dr. jonny phd

@renchap
That was a huge win, congrats to yall.

9 February at 20:20 | Open on neuromatch.social
Emelia 👸🏻

@renchap I've shared the PR for mastodon's implementation with @dansup

10 February at 11:26 | Open on hachyderm.io
Renaud Chaput

I am happy to announce that I am now officially part of the Mastodon core team, as CTO of Mastodon gGmbH (the non-profit developing the project).

Thank you @gargron for trusting me!

In this role, I will provide technical direction for the project, overview the infrastructure and streamline the contributing experience, as I have been doing since the start of the year.

11 Oct 2023 at 15:19 | Open on oisaur.com
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Renaud Chaput
Renaud Chaput

Full text search has been merged in #Mastodon `main` branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta 🎉

It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile to be indexed, but this was one of the most wanted Mastodon features for some time.

We plan to deploy it to mastodon.social and mastodon.online in the coming days to have a bit more feedback on it and see how it behaves in the wild.

24 Aug 2023 at 19:14 | Open on oisaur.com
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Jon

@renchap@oisaur.com congrats to all involved, opt-in search is a really big deal!

24 Aug 2023 at 19:25 | Open on blahaj.zone
Ubergeek

@renchap Most wanted by, whom, exactly?

24 Aug 2023 at 19:28 | Open on tilde.zone
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@renchap this should really help to find people to follow, as long as people opt in that is

24 Aug 2023 at 22:18 | Open on mastodon.social
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