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Question for fediverse server admins and moderators — in the list of servers yours federates with, how would you prefer them to be sorted?

#Smithereen #mastodev #activitypub

Today we're sharing additional guidelines about our Trade Mark Policy based on community feedback that we received.

The new guidelines, and more background about these changes, are available on our blog:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/sharing-guidelines-about-mastodons-trade-mark-policy/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #FediDev #MastoDev #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

Hey friends, it's me again :blobfoxwave:

We have more news to share today, though I must admit, this news is a little less fun.

Recently, the @Mastodon team received a fair number of questions about our trade mark policy. We realised we could add some guidelines to help make the Policy more clear, so over the last few months, we did just that! I'll post a "plain English" version of the guidelines as a comment.

You can read more background about the changes we made, and see the guidelines themselves, in this blog post:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/sharing-guidelines-about-mastodons-trade-mark-policy/

And the trade mark policy page is updated too:
https://joinmastodon.org/trademark

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastoAdmin #MastoDev #SocialWeb

📬 Trunk & Tidbits for July 2026 is now out!

Our monthly blog post series is there to showcase what we worked on last month.

In this edition, we welcome @jhbabon and highlight the many backend changes that were merged and will be part of our upcoming 4.7 release. Those include support for FEP-8b32, FEP 8967 and new algorithms, including ML-DSA-44 for post-quantum signatures.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/trunk-tidbits-july-2026/

#mastodev #mastoadmin #TrunkAndTidbits

Happy to see that #Mastodon v4.6.4 no longer buries the full handle of a user into a popup, and I can once again just copy-paste from the profile. That was one nasty regression in the name of "simplicity". (I'm not sure in which version this happened because I can't find a mention of the change in the release notes of the 4.6.x line.)

#FediMeta #MastoDev

okay fine I have an unironic #mastodev #mastodev2 question. is there a staging server somewhere we could point a test instance at to see if the rebuild of our instance would do federation correctly? we want to be nice and not creep people out (and waste resources) by poking live instances with a test server.

# Pachli 3.8.0 is released

This release introduces support for notifications about #collections, improves compatibility with #iceshrimpdotnet servers (by @c, their first contribution to Pachli), fixes a crash, and ensures follower/following relationships are updated if you block a server.

https://pachli.app/pachli/2026/07/30/3.8.0-release.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=release-3.8.0

#Pachli #MastoDev #AndroidDev

Anonymous textboard #mastodon instance... would it
- be defederated immediately and universally
- fit right in, not like anyone knows who anyone really is around here. I'm a squirrel in an ape suit, for example. A reverse furry.
- depends on moderation algorithm. If moderation works, then it doesn't matter who the users are

#mastodev

What’s your mastodon app feature wishlist?

#askmasto #askfedi #mastodev

Which Fediverse software natively supports importing a Twitter archive with backdating? Like Pixelfed does with Instagram archives.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodev

I also learned just now that if your internet connection is intermittent,

a) the Mastodon web interface can throw up so many "Oops" notifications that you can't see what you're typing. And they clear much more slowly than they appear, and

b) while it is the obvious natural reaction, these notifications do not disappear no matter how hard you shake your laptop. 🙁

#Mastodev

I'm adding support for multiple public keys per actor in Smithereen for future-proofing purposes. Are there any signature algorithms other than RSA currently in use on the fediverse? ECDSA maybe?

#ActivityPub #mastodev

📬 Trunk & Tidbits for June 2026 is now live!

Our monthly blog post series is there to showcase what we worked on last month.

In this edition, we are also discussing our official Helm Chart for Mastodon, for those of you who deploy Mastodon on Kubernetes. We released a brand new version of the chart in a new place, deprecating the existing one.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/07/trunk-tidbits-june-2026/

#mastodev #mastoadmin #TrunkAndTidbits

Woo woo. I am now confident with the new wiki document rewrite and some quadlet file changes. Tested deployment on my local machine and VM, both official upstream and Glitch-Soc.

Mastodon Rootless Podman Quadlets

Initial Setup

NEW: Simplified Version

#rootless #quadlets #quadlet #podman #mastodon #sysadmin #mastoadmin #mastodev #deployment

# Pachli 3.7.2 is released

This fixes a crash when processing corrupt notification data, thanks to @lucas for reporting this (their first contribution to #Pachli).

This release also includes translation updates:

- Kabyle by @ButterflyOfFire

https://pachli.app/pachli/2026/07/02/3.7.2-release.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=release-3.7.2

#MastoDev #AndroidDev

# Pachli 3.7.1 is released

## Fixes

- Show polls attached to boosted posts
- Show roles on any suggested accounts
- Update "following" relationships when following suggested accounts

https://pachli.app/pachli/2026/06/30/3.7.1-release.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=release-3.7.1

#MastoDev #AndroidDev

@pascaline Yeah, "multiple choice" polls have some weird flex. 📊

#mastodon #polls #mastodev

🤔 there's no push notification for collections 🤔 #MastoDev

RE: https://wspanialy.eu/@PanNindyk/116786116739369324

It works! But seems not federated 🤔📩

Hat tip to @LukaszHorodecki @PanNindyk

#PhanpySocialDev #MastoDev

The new Mastodon web interface update (4.6.0) doesn't seem to automatically translate :codes: to emoticons?

@trumpet

(But it does still automatically complete hashtags and user names.)

#mastoDev

I don't usually encourage linking to Phanpy (it's not supposed to be a shareable permalink) but here's a preview of @stefan 's collections https://dev.phanpy.social/#/stefanbohacek.online/a/109694346929844617/c (should work when not logged in too).

#PhanpySocialDev #MastoDev

📨 Newsletters? https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/#newsletters

#MastoDev

Filter notifications has filtering for bots. #MastoDev #PhanpySocialDev

For those using masto.js 💁‍♂️ https://github.com/neet/masto.js/issues/1424

#MastoDev

We need reply controls in mainline masto like yesterday. Of course technically its always possible for people on a malicious instance to evade them, but that is not a counterargument to having them work on the overwhelming majority of well behaved instances where the people we actually talk to are.

We already have the mechanism in mainline masto: reply collection enumeration - if person on instance A receives a malicious reply from person on instance B that is propagated to instance C, when instance C displays the thread, it refreshes the replies collection, sees a tombstone for the malicious reply, and does not display it in the thread.

We already have notification filters and a whole ui built for that. Reply controls could just be another tab on the same menu with the same controls.

You can't stop people from posting whatever, but you should be able to control whether someone uses your posts as a platform to harass you and the people around you.

#mastodev #fedimeta

oh… that's how it works 🤔 https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/NotificationFallback/ ← https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/Notification/#fallback-optional

#MastoDev

gare aux fuites de données pour #mastodon !!

#cybersec #fuites #franceFuites #data #dev #mastodev

oh noes les pouet disparus!

#mastodev