Mastodon @Mastodon@mastodon.social

What is Mastodon? An animated video: https://youtu.be/IPSbNdBmWKE 🐘

Introducing the #Mastodon Server Covenant: Changes to the joinmastodon.org server picker

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/05/introducing-the-mastodon-server-covenant/

Improving support for adult content on Mastodon: Introducing Blurhash in Mastodon 2.8.1

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/05/improving-support-for-adult-content-on-mastodon/

Some people have reported problems installing Mastodon v2.8.1 due to gem compilation.

This and a few other small bugs have been fixed in #Mastodon v2.8.2:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.8.2

#Mastodon v2.8.1 is out 🎉

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.8.1

Among numerous fixes, there are very nice changes around how sensitive media is displayed

#Mastodon 2.8 is out 🎉

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/04/mastodon-2.8/

#Mastodon v2.8.0rc1 is out, the first release candidate for testing

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.8.0rc1

Read the changelog at the link above!

#Mastodon v2.7.4 is out 🎉

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.7.4

It is bug fixes

#Mastodon v2.7.3 is out 🎉

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.7.3

It's various fixes!

Highlights from v2.7.2:

The error page elephant animation is now hover-to-play

The conversations column now always displays the list of other participants in the conversation, instead of the most recent one

Unicode in URLs and quotations around them get turned into links the expected way now

New checks guard the ActivityPub inbox against storing deliveries that nobody asked for

And many other fixes

#Mastodon v2.7.2 is out 🎉

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.7.2

It is a backport release, which means if you are running from the master branch, it's not for you.

#Mastodon v2.7.1 is out:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.7.1

Mostly hotfixes, such as for broken SSO deployments, and a PostgreSQL <9.5 fallback migration not copying counters correctly

#Mastodon 2.7 is released 🎉

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/01/mastodon-2.7/

"Decentralization is biodiversity of the digital world" - Reasons why you should care about how your social network is run and structured

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/12/why-does-decentralization-matter/

#Mastodon v2.6.5:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.6.5

Fixes federation issues due to the JSON-LD context host being down

#Mastodon v2.6.3:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.6.3

Another backport. There is an important performance fix that was missing in 2.6.2 and some smaller fixes.

#Mastodon v2.6.2:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.6.2

This is a backport of fixes and improvements from the master branch to 2.6

Mastodon 2.6 released: Highlights from the changelog

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/10/mastodon-2.6-released/

Some regressions were discovered so here is #Mastodon 2.6.1:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.6.1

Sorry for the inconvenience.

🎉 #Mastodon 2.6.0 is out! 🎉

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.6.0

- Link ownership verification
- Redesigned forms
- Revamped DMs column
- In-stream link previews
- More tootctl utilities for admins
- Improved admin UIs

And a load of bug fixes! 🐘