Mastodon @Mastodon@mastodon.social

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

#Mastodon 3.0: A short overview of some of our newest features

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/10/mastodon-3.0/

The first release candidate of #Mastodon 3.0.0 is out for testing:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.0.0rc1

Last night's v2.9.1 release of #Mastodon had some bugs around audio uploads, so here is a small patch to take care of that:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.9.2

#Mastodon v2.9.1 is out 🎉

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.9.1

A new moderation API, audio uploads, and domain blocks that extend to subdomains automatically

#Mastodon 2.9 is out 🎉

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/mastodon-2.9/

#Mastodon v2.9.0rc1 is out, the first release candidate for testing

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.9.0rc1

This release introduces the single-column mode along with making it the default for new users, a reorganization of preferences, as well as a revamp of the light theme

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/