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Eugen Rochko

Yesterday's stats: 3,007 alive Mastodon servers, 3,116,319 registered Mastodon users, 478,046 active Mastodon users

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gms77

@Gargron just wondering, what is classed as active? I don't post much but check the app regularly.

Gäck Manuel

@Gargron das wird noch richtig bunt hier 🙌🏼 neu dabei und sehr gespannt.

Eugen Rochko

So often what admins put into their server's short description is neither short nor description :tiredcat:

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Hoelder1in

@Gargron I would find it interesting where / on what hardware / at what cost an instance is hosted, as well as how/by whom the expenses are covered. Also, some hints on the motivation for creating an instance and (hopefully) longterm commitment to maintain it would be useful. Not sure all of this fits in a 'short description', though.

joene 🏴🍉🌲

@Gargron The only reason ours is so long, is because we want to describe it in four languages, three using the <details> HTML tag. Also one extra to point to other translations. This is because it isn't possible to make those descriptions language specific. Also the reason I had to change some code to make the landing page in four languages (fall back is English). This all because we have multiple language servers, especially English, German, Spanish and Dutch. On joinmastodon we are listed under English, but we are in multiple languages.

Another issue is that servers can't make their own text with requirements for account request and also that in multiple language. I also had to change the code for that (fall back is English).

That's why I asked you to change the description on joinmastodon to point people to these requirements when signing up with a mobile app.

@Gargron The only reason ours is so long, is because we want to describe it in four languages, three using the <details> HTML tag. Also one extra to point to other translations. This is because it isn't possible to make those descriptions language specific. Also the reason I had to change some code to make the landing page in four languages (fall back is English). This all because we have multiple language servers, especially English, German, Spanish and Dutch. On joinmastodon we are listed under...

R4ph43l :idle:

@Gargron "This is a server. It does server stuff."

Eugen Rochko

Not entirely sure how to tell feed readers that the inline image is a custom emoji and should not be stretched as wide as possible.

Eugen Rochko

CSS classes are meaningless and inline styles get stripped or modified. Would be nice to get something like rel=emoji going.

flutergork🌻️🇨🇦️ 🇺🇦

@Gargron It appears you just did. Whether they believe it is another story.

flesh roots :debian: 🍕

@Gargron dope track. not my usual but it's pretty nice. Tells a story, has a neat visual (the triangle glows pink roughly during the chorus/refrains)

Eugen Rochko

I am reading the #Bluesky #ADX architecture outline. First impression is that it seems quite complicated. The topology looks a lot like the fediverse but everything is a Merkle tree and identity is tied to something that looks a lot like a blockchain.

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DELETED

@Gargron Can't we all just use the appropriate data structure?

(blockchain bros to my block list)

Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏

@Gargron @sean That's one way to look at it, yes definitely; another though is to see it as practical (yet experimental) collaborative development towards social posts and social graph as migratable digital assets, and attempt at separating free speech from free reach...

All still pie-in-the-sky (pun kinda intended), but still though.

Ariadne Conill 🐰

@Gargron it is much worse than activitypub as it is implemented today in terms of assured deniability 🙃

Eugen Rochko

Mastodon has a verification mechanism, though it looks different from Twitter's. We do not ask for your documents. Instead, if you have a website that you are known by, you can verify that you are the owner of that website.

Link to your Mastodon profile from the website, either through a visible link, or through a <link> tag in the head of the document, with a rel=me attribute, and link back to that page from your Mastodon profile. It should then get a green checkmark, like @Mastodon.

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DELETED

@Gargron @Mastodon hey @scrumtuous here is how to get.a green checkmark on mastodon :)

Itamar Medeiros

@Gargron @Mastodon I've followed the instructions (I've added a link on my homepage with the rel=me on it), but my website in Mastodon is still not showing as verified (check the screenshot)... is there some process in the backend that still needs to happen and I should wait?

Eugen Rochko

Mastodon's Android app is now at 43,362 installs, getting us ever so closer to making us tip over from that "10,000+" text on the Play Store to "50,000+"

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Paul

@Gargron Well done to everyone involved - an even more impressive achievement given the short timescale

[DATA EXPUNGED]
Eugen Rochko

I was asked to do a video interview, but in the end they couldn't send a crew to where I live. I know the interview would be good for Mastodon, but I am so relieved I don't have to do it 😅

Eugen Rochko

Mastodon for Android has been installed over 32K times! Still only 400 ratings though. Please don't forget to rate the app!

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xavives

@Gargron is the app open source? Would appreciate to see it in F-droid :) I am using Tusky at the moment as it is there

Roh 👻

@Gargron i'm coming back to tusky, the federated timeline is not there. And the explore tab show nothing amd just 404 not found. I'm on small server

Eugen Rochko

New iOS app release is waiting for Apple review! It adds a community timeline and fixes sign-up errors not being shown and servers being listed in the wrong order during onboarding.

Eugen Rochko

I am trying out some changes to the Explore tab here on mastodon.social. Only one post per author will now be displayed, allowing more different authors to be seen. I've also tweaked how quickly those posts fall off.

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Vincent van Duijnhoven

@Gargron my explore > posts and news tab is always empty. Did i miss a setting?

Thomas Schindler

@Gargron That seems a good decision to me. Bonus question: The local timeline is empty on the web and in mobile clients. Is this just for me or a general thing on our instance? Thanks for your great work!

Ombra 🔵🌻

@Gargron News is empty for me, would be great to see more there.

Eugen Rochko

If you created your account a long time ago, you may be seeing Mastodon's advanced web interface (multiple columns). That interface has not been the default for years now. You can control which one you see from Preferences.

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Rich (RJ)

@gargron Is this instance specific? I can only get Home, Notifications and one more on the one I'm on, event with 'Advanced' turned on.

Andrew Meier

@Gargron I loved when I saw this when it first showed up. Keep hoping to see it in the iPadOS version along with better keyboard support. If I could code I’d totally attempt to add it.

In other news thanks for all the hardwork, I appreciate the ability to come back to see it’s still running and additional features/active development. Of course thanks to the the whole team & all the instance admins.

Eugen Rochko

#MoonKnight is trending for a good reason! That episode was fucking great

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Christian Mutig 👻🚫

@Gargron Oh, I agree. Another incredible Marvel Studios project who have yet to have a misfire from one of their TV shows. Already looking forward to Ms. Marvel in June.

Dave Collins

@Gargron I caught up with two episodes and then it stops on that cliff hanger! Why…… :cwy:

Eugen Rochko

Mastodon's monthly active user numbers have risen by 84,579 since the Twitter buyout story broke on Monday (and I do mean across the Mastodon network, not this server)

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Pedro Machado Santa

@Gargron I already knew about @Mastodon, which I always found interesting. The Elon buyout was the push I needed to join actually.

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