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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) @hongminhee@hackers.pub
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Calling all developers for help: I'm currently trying to implement a () feature for Hackers' Pub, an -enabled community for software engineers. Is there a formal specification for how cross-instance reporting should work in ActivityPub? Or, is there any well-documented material that explains how the major implementations handle it?

Hackers' Pub

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

hackers.pub

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Pachli @pachli@mastodon.social
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# Pachli 3.2.0 is released

## New features

- Apply filters to search results, bookmarks, and favourites
- Display account pronouns
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## Fixes

- Make "Load newest notifications" work
- Load images from sites using LetsEncrypt certificates on older devices
- Show emojis in author names in bylines
- Translate boosted posts correctly
- Improve display of error causes
- Show display names with some RTL characters correctly

pachli.app/pachli/2025/11/30/3

Pachli 3.2.0 released

Pachli 3.2.0 is now available. This release applies your filters to search results, bookmarks, and favourites (if your server supports this), shows account pronouns throughout the UI, and supports Mastodon’s new “quote post” feature.

pachli.app · Pachli

Link author: Pachli@pachli@mastodon.social

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Pachli @pachli@mastodon.social
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Now in Current: viewing the "detailed" version of a post (the one you see after tapping on it) now shows -- next to the number of boosts and favourites -- the number of times the post has been quoted (if this is your post, Mastodon doesn't let you see this information for posts written by others).

Tapping that number will show you a timeline of those posts so you can see how you're being quoted, and, optionally, remove your quoted post from them.

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun@mastodon.social
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RE: mastodon.social/@cheeaun/11523

For devs implementing Quote Posts, I've compiled my own doc here, probably useful github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/disc

should cover most features, maybe just 95% of them(?) 🤞

Unlike the official site,
- allows QP with media or poll
- prompt for embedding QP after paste link, instead of just embed
- doesn't have 'cancel quote' button in Composer
- still resolve non-native QP but they look more like a link card now

My progress thread since Sept 19 👇

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun@mastodon.social
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To know what software an instance is running (Mastodon, Pleroma, Akkoma, Firefish, Friendica, etc), have to make 2 calls:

1. `/.well-known/nodeinfo` - get the `href` for a nodeinfo link e.g. mastodon.social/.well-known/no
2. `/nodeinfo/2.0` (possibly 1.0 or 2.1 too) - get the `software.name` e.g. mastodon.social/nodeinfo/2.0

And… both are not CORS-enabled (again) for web apps to request 😅😢

Reference: github.com/h3poteto/megalodon/

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun@mastodon.social
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RE: mastodon.social/@cheeaun/11541

After looking at this, got curious to know the limits in most servers.

So I did a little data analysis. Servers list from @fediverseobserver , filtered to only Mastodon & MAU > 3. A reduced dataset should be adequate for a rough approximation.

Chart titled "Image Matrix Limits" showing a table lists matrix MP values (2, 17, 33, 38–195) with counts and percentages and bar graph: 33 MP dominates (2145, 93.50%), 17 MP (139, 6.06%), and small entries for 2 MP and 38–195 MP.Chart titled "Image Size Limits" showing counts and percentages of image sizes (MB) with a horizontal bar graph. The 16 MB row dominates (2,081 items, 90.71%) while other size buckets (4–5, 8, 10, 15, 19, 20, 24–32, 38–48, 50–99, 100–1354 MB) show much smaller counts and percentages.Chart titled "Video Matrix Limits" showing matrix sizes 2MP (138, 6.02%), 8MP (2149, 93.68%) and 9–36MP (7, 0.31%) with horizontal bar graph.Chart titled "Video Size Limits" showing size bins (10–20, 40, 50–80, 86–98, 99, 100, 128–160, 200, 250–800, 990–2048 MB) with counts and percentages; the 99 MB row dominates with count 2086 (90.93%).
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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun@mastodon.social
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Those implementing quote posts in scheduled posts, there's a bug that I just reported github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

- `quote_approval_policy` returns an odd integer value, should be a string I think — not a huge issue if the client doesn't need to display this value
- `quoted_status_id` returns integer, should be string too — only affects web clients because… `BigInt`s 🤷‍♂️

Steps to reproduce the problem Schedule a status quoting another status. View list of scheduled statuses or the scheduled status itself Expected behaviour quote_approval_policy and quoted_status_id...

`quote_approval_policy` & `quoted_status_id` returns integer in ScheduledStatus · Issue #36536 · mastodon/mastodon

Steps to reproduce the problem Schedule a status quoting another status. View list of scheduled statuses or the scheduled status itself Expected behaviour quote_approval_policy and quoted_status_id...

github.com · GitHub

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Mastodon Engineering @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social
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Our monthly engineering update is out!

In September we polished the quote post feature, improved many bits of the UI and worked on some deeper technical changes to unlock future features. Read more on our blog to see what the team has been working on 👀

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/

Trunk & Tidbits, September 2025

News about what the Mastodon team worked on in September. Quote posts initial release, preparing version 4.5, new Android and iOS releases, and more.

blog.joinmastodon.org · Mastodon Blog

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Gregory @grishka@mastodon.social
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On a fediverse server with a versioned client API, what would you expect to happen if an API call is made with a version number higher than what the server supports? Should it return an error? Should it take it to mean its highest supported version? Something else?

The API isn't RESTful, the version number is global for all methods (endpoints) and has the format "major.minor".

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jonny (good kind) @jonny@neuromatch.social
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A wiki you can post on, what a concept.
But that's basically what it is we just don't have names for posts or concepts.

I actually did implement this, where you could give a post a title and that gives it a namespaced URL, ideally then one would be able to do [[my post]] or [[@jonny/my post]] , (and then quoting a named concept would be {{ @jonny/my post }} ). Idk why we never deployed this.

github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/m

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Gregory @grishka@mastodon.social
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0.11 is out!

This one mostly focuses on groups and moderation. Groups now have discussion boards, admins can specify server rules (with translations!), moderators have more and better tools at their disposal, and users can now pin posts and export their data.

Detailed changelog here: github.com/grishka/Smithereen/

Now comes the part where I build the client API I promised everyone for so long. And the website.

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Tykayn @tykayn@mastodon.cipherbliss.com
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les discussions sur github à propos des nouvelles fonctionnalités pour :

2018 :

  • hey on pourrait grouper les notifs hein, c'est chiant quand on a plus de 1000 personnes qui nous suivent hein, on est pas tous des boloss dont personne ne lit les posts
  • ouais on devrait faire ça.
  • oui, voilà un plan pour faire ça facilement.

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2023:

  • ouais grave
  • ce serait facile à faire en plus...

2024:

  • ouais trop faut qu'on fasse ça.

...

putin mais comme dirait Benjamin Bayard, faites des trucs, bordel!
😭

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Paul Chambers🚧 @paul@oldfriends.live
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I'm grateful for the recent changes in the moderation of Hashtags via Mastodon but I really wished it had a "filter" option in the dropdown, like "add to new or existing filter", mute hashtag, etc. Now that sports season is back and there are a thousand and one teams and more people are active, using team and game specific hashtags, it's gonna be hard to chase, esp when people don't use universal sport hashtags like , etc along with their team or game specific tags. It is exciting to see sports growing in the Fediverse, though.

Follow hashtag Feature on profile Open moderation interface for hashtag
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Jeremiah Lee @Jeremiah@alpaca.gold
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The only way for community server admins to extend or customize Mastodon is to fork it. I wish Mastodon had a WordPress-like plugin architecture of hook actions and filters.

Until then, Lappverk is a new tool by @natkrNatalie that might make maintaining Mastodon forks easier. It’s inspired by how Linux distros maintain their complex patch histories. I hope to try if Lappverk reduces my anxiety of rebase and merge conflict hell next week.

h/t @ceejbotC J Silverio

natkr.com/2025-08-14-modifying

Modifying Other People's Software | natkr's ramblings

Every once in a while, we all feel the need to modify something that someone else built.

natkr.com

Link author: Natalie@natkr@hachyderm.io

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kopper :colon_three: @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work
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Would there be any interest in a "pre-authorized fetch" FEP?

My use case is this: An ActivityPub-speaking client with a server component (where “poisoning” the data would be more of a concern compared to local clients which can wipe their caches at any time) “Charlie” is commanded by actor “Alice” to load an object from “Bob” (say, backfilling a conversation) which is not publicly available. Bob grants Alice permission to view the object, but isn’t aware that Alice has asked Charlie to fetch it on her behalf, and therefore rejects the request. Charlie co...

socialhub.activitypub.rocks · SocialHub

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Matt × 🇳🇴 🇺🇦 @matt@oslo.town
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I know PixelFed exists but it's all just text and video and images at the end of the day - so what if the Mastodon interface just looked like Instagram and then you could sign in using your existing Mastodon account... a concept:

coxy.co/instadon/v3

This is just hacked together real quick, but should I work on this to make it a real thing?

Instadon — Media Feed

coxy.co

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Gregory @grishka@mastodon.social
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After implementing partial support for Mastodon's FEP-044f quote post authorization in , I realized that this flow with sending a "*Request" activity and receiving a corresponding Accept{*Request} is nothing but an RPC mechanism.

So now Smithereen also uses TopicCreationRequest and TopicRenameRequest for discussion boards in groups, which are almost finished, btw.

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Jer @nyquildotorg@gts.nyquil.org
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I hope the situation where setting up a fediverse instance on a domain "burns" that domain forever gets rectified at some point. I would really like to just use my nyquil.org hostname, but still be able to change platforms at some point. For now I used gts.nyquil.org, assuming that I'm probably going to eventually want to play with bonfire or iceshrimp.NET or some other platform, and can have them all running on their own subdomains until a time when I want to migrate to one of them.

Paul Chambers🚧 @paul@oldfriends.live
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@nyquildotorgJer and needs a mechanism where domain names can be recycled. The fact that WordPress alone has no mechanism to allow a domain to exit the fediverse is reason enough. Sometimes servers get bricked and there is no way to go back and self-destruct.

Domains could be validated with a text record in the DNS by the owner of the domain name. If text record ActivityPubKill is true, then it should be trusted as so and defederated.

I'm not sure how this could be done, I don't know the ins and out. Maybe software packages could poll the DNS of failing federated servers and look for a universal or software specific kill tag or a file could be placed somewhere on a server that it looks for when a server fails, esp after 7 days.

Either way, a dns entry or a file on a physical server can be a trusted source as it takes elevated permission by someone in charge of a domain to usually do such a thing.

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun@mastodon.social
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Saw this "Followed hashtags" collapsible list on mastodon.social (v4.4.0 nightly), wondering how long the list of hashtags will be.

Turns out it's hard-coded to 4 🤷‍♂️
- Initial PR: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p
- Latest change (June 23rd): github.com/mastodon/mastodon/b

There's no limit set for lists tho' (its API doesn't have `limit` too)

Code snippet in JavaScript showing the definition of a function named apiGetFollowedTags that fetches and sets followed tags and loading state, with error handling.Screenshot of a React TypeScript code snippet defining a FollowedTagsPanel component that fetches and displays a limited number of followed hashtags with internationalized titles and collapsible panel UI.
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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social
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👋 Everyone: see what you think:

The Seven Deadly UX Sins Part 2: The Road To Redemption: timothychambers.net/2025/06/24

Don't claim that these are final answers - but hope they help continue constructive motion to final answers!

cc: @renchapRenaud Chaput @dansup
@cheeaunChee Aun 🤔 @scottjenson @newsmastNewsmast Foundation @andypiper @ricmacRichard MacManus @evanEvan Prodromou @laurenshof @pfefferle @fediversenews @timbray

The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins Part 2: The Road To Redemption

So you made it through the first fiery sermon in this series. Trust me—I didn’t enjoy preaching it any more than you enjoyed reading it. But every word came from a place of love—for the Fediverse, and for what it still could become. But fear not, dear reader: as the preacher once said, salvation is within your reach. And to reward you for slogging through that earlier wall of hard truths, here’s your moment of grace.

www.timothychambers.net

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Mitex Leo @ml@social.mitexleo.one
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I'm feeling a bit stuck and could use some help. The situation is a bit messy because more than half of my followers are still on my Mastodon account, while the rest are here. The migration process seems to have hit a snag and isn't progressing like it should. On top of that, the feature to import the list of accounts I follow isn't working correctly. I've been trying to follow over 5,000 accounts, but Akkoma has only imported around 3,000. This discrepancy is pretty big and quite frustrating.

After giving it some thought, I believe the main issue lies with Akkoma. If anyone has any tips or insights, I'd really appreciate it!

#akkoma #mastodon #fediverse #migration #pleroma #help #fedi #askfedi #mastodondev #mastodev #boost
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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun@mastodon.social
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Cool to see another @elk fork 👍
g0v.social/@s414june/114424390

青蛙吃大象 (@s414june@g0v.social)

📌個人頁置頂 大家好~我目前正在開發Mastodon第三方應用，目標是做出更好用的畫面，增進使用者體驗。 測試網址（未來將買正式網域）： https://glowrea.vercel.app?v=3 這是開源專案elk.zone的分支。 Trello狀態管理： https://trello.com/b/1p8vCMjd/glowrea Trello 會列上我的代辦事項（需求/BUG...），僅有瀏覽的權限，有其他發現/想要的可以私訊我/留言！ ［技能］ 程式相關： 現階段以純前端為主（Vue/Nuxt） 目前後端相關經驗C#/Nodejs/一點點點Java/Python，資料庫略熟MSSQL，部署經驗Fly.io 歡迎技術交流~ 設計相關： 曾雙主修相關科系/兼職，會用Figma/Adobe系列 使用者體驗與設計規範還不夠了解 目前開發會以自己認知的美感先開始 歡迎指教！ ［其他-歡迎戳友］ 文學相關： 相關科系畢業，喜歡三島由紀夫，不過近期沒在看書😭有空會先把百年孤寂看完 音樂相關： 有個小樂團（隕方），目前只有一首歌在街聲上架。我是主唱+節奏吉他+主揪（團長），正在研究編曲但好難🥲 其他留言補

g0v.social · g0v.social

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Renaud Chaput @renchap@oisaur.com
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I am very happy that today we merged the pull request switching the Mastodon frontend build chain from the very old (and outdated) Webpack 4 to @vite ⚡️

It is not visible to end-users but it will greatly improve the developer experience with working on the Mastodon frontend and opens the door for many good things.

I started the initial work 2 years ago, then @chaosexanimaecho ✨ took over and got it over the finish line 🚀

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

This is a PR based on #24981 that will merge into #34454. It also contains #34469 and #34485.

Convert from Webpack to Vite by ChaosExAnima · Pull Request #34450 · mastodon/mastodon

This is a PR based on #24981 that will merge into #34454. It also contains #34469 and #34485.

github.com · GitHub

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