#mastodev

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@jonny@neuromatch.social · 1d ago

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

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

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Matt Vestengen-Cox

@matt@oslo.town · Jun 03, 2026

@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social Shout out to the 43 contributors! 👏 Thank you for your hard work. 🙇 #mastodon #mastodev #opensource #github

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clar fon

@clarfonthey@toot.cat · May 17, 2026

🟧 also, honourable mention to @andypiper@macaw.social, who helped start this entire thing! there wouldn't be an anniversary to celebrate without you remember: the word "fuck" is such a powerful COC violation that it is capable of overpowering even a project that gives a "Frick" about accessibility. in case you're looking to write about the topic, you can use a title like this: "Mastodon accessibility concerns disrupted by powerful fuck" or "powerful fuck leads to 3-month anniversary of 6-character Mastodon accessibility change" even in the face of evidence-based accessibility changes, things can still be halted by a single fuck that was given! thanks to @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social for curating such a great team! https://txt.ltdk.xyz/giving-a-fuck-about-accessibility/ #Mastodon #MastoDev #JohnMastodon #PowerfulFuck

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Gregory

@grishka@mastodon.social · May 04, 2026

Wanted to check out #Smithereen? Well, now you can! I've just set up a demo server that lets you sign up for a temporary account to play around: https://try.smithereen.software #activitypub #mastodev

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Gregory

@grishka@mastodon.social · May 04, 2026

Wanted to check out #Smithereen? Well, now you can! I've just set up a demo server that lets you sign up for a temporary account to play around: try.smithereen.software #activitypub #mastodev

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Paul Chambers🚧

@paul@oldfriends.live · May 01, 2026

I see why people may want to auto purge posts on Mastodon but that is unfair to people who reply or quote post, which leaves orphan replies and interactions with no context. It also leaves database entries and media that may come with interactions on servers. I think one option to be fair would be to create a post setting that marks a post with an icon or something warning people that it is subject to auto purging, giving people advance notice who then can decide to interact or not Post not made with the auto purge option can still be deleted but must be deleted manually. It would be great if manually deleted posts had a user panel that users could see and then manage their orphaned interactions. #MastoAdmin #Moderation #Mastodon #MastoDev

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franklin

@lint@social.puppydogging.com · May 01, 2026

#ActivityPub needs to implement that you can edit the entirety of the toots that you reblog. #mastodev

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

Mastodon Engineering

@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2026

Trunk & Tidbits for March is out - our monthly engineering news, featuring current releases, the profiles redesign, Collections, additional FEPs implemented - lots of work in motion. #MastoDev #MastoAdmin #Mastodon https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/trunk-tidbits-march-2026/

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