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We just upgraded our Mastodon fork on Mementomori.social to Mastodon 4.6.0 theme variations.

Mastodon Bird UI is now at 4.0.0-alpha.8.rc with support for Color scheme and Contrast settings.

New settings in Settings → Preferences → Appearance:

• Use stars instead of hearts for favourites
• Hide Translate links on Finnish posts
• Hide all Translate links

These used to be separate themes; now you can mix and match.

The Theme dropdown is shorter for the same reason: Light, Dark and Contrast moved into Mastodon’s own radios just below the dropdown. If your previous theme is gone, pick Mastodon Bird UI and set Color scheme + tick the new checkboxes to match what you had.

Fixes in Mastodon Bird UI:

• Star icon alignment when Reduce motion is enabled
• Sparkle and ring animations now fire in both motion modes
• Notification colors that disappeared when your OS was light but Mastodon was set to dark

If anything feels off, let me or the admins know.

Technical details: https://github.com/rollecode/mastodon-bird-ui/releases/tag/4.0.0-alpha.8.rc

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI

We’ve successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.7+mementomods-2026-05-02, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.7 (nightly).

This update includes today’s latest daily build with 207 new commits from upstream since mementomods-2026-04-05.

What’s new in Mastodon core - These are the changes Mastodon Team have introduced us in the latest nightly version we are running:

✨️ New features

• Collections continue to mature - per-user maximum number of collections, “Featuring you” tab, “Follows you” badge in lists, federated Flag activities, “added to collection” notifications with full context menus, and viewing unlisted collections on your own Featured tab
• New collection editor - final design for account dropdown menu, account search dropdown, accounts editor page, “Must follow” section in suggestions, grouped Combobox results
• Profile redesign keeps polishing - full join date (currently in modal), animated/transparent avatars, illustrations using CSS vars, control over follower/following list visibility, bot toggle in editing, advanced view overflow fix
• Server thumbnail alt text - admins can now define alt text for the server thumbnail, surfaced in the frontend
• Fallback attributes for new and infrequent notification types so no event renders as an empty card
• Keyboard-only modal form submission
• Extended date display for relative times when feature_approval cooldown applies, including new AccountMigration#remaining_cooldown_days helper
• New domain_variants helper on DomainNormalizable for IDN handling

🔧 Fixes & improvements

• Several profile bugs - minor visual glitches, gap in fields layout, dropdown blocking missing the confirmation modal, follower/following list error for accounts that never posted
• Custom emoji not appearing in autocomplete
• Stale collections list after deleting a collection, broken client-side collection routes, collection item limit, multiple occurrences of the same user in a collection
• Quote blocked user issue
• Bio line clamping in AccountListItem
• Combobox loading state and confusing admin list hover states
• Streaming server uses WHATWG URL API instead of deprecated url.parse
• Signature verification fixes carried from previous nightly
• Importing emoji loader statically inside the inline worker (Vite 8 compatibility)
• Hero image radius brought back into repo

📦 Dependency updates

• Ruby 4.0.3 (from 4.0.2), Puma 8.0.1, Vite 8.0.10, Node.js 24.15, Yarn 4.14.1, Sidekiq 8.1.3, propshaft, formatjs, opentelemetry-ruby, and dozens of smaller bumps

🐦‍⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.7 (nightly)

• Fix duplicate profile buttons after upstream class name change
• Remove padding-top from account__header__buttons on viewports under 420px
• Apply --font-size variables to display name, form field wrapper, app form link text, and simple_form hints so accessible themes scale them correctly
• Move field list row-gap 5px to all viewports
• Fix follows you badge and pinned badge styling
• Fix familiar followers margin spacing
• Fix profile badge and username spacing
• Map --color-text-brand to --color-accent for consistent link colors

🔧 Mementomori.social Mastodon fork fixes

• Fixed private mention styles and follow requests styling
• Fixed emoji worker loader using a static import for Vite 8 inline worker compatibility
• Fixed trends alignment and trends counter missing tagName after the upstream FormattedMessage wrapper removal
• Fixed uncaught play() promise rejections on autoplay-blocked browsers

Source code: https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon

As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts.

If anything feels off, please let us know!

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

It's funny to think that I named the instance mementomori.social, and now we have around a thousand users, including companies, politicians, organizations, publishers, authors, and more. The name came from my stoic side, and I wanted something unique, like Mastodon. I could have launched the instance with a name like "newsocial" or "socialnetwork", something more appealing and generic. I could have even built a custom UI to make it more "mainstream-friendly", similar to Mastodon Bird UI. But I decided not to. I kind of like it this way. I wanted people to have that reaction, "What is mementomori.social?". I like that it's a bit obscure and different. Still, it feels strange when a really prominent person posts under this domain. It's cool though, definitely something to be happy about. Maybe I'm being too modest about it all. Thoughts about the name, in Finnish or English? How do you approach it? What are the pros and cons? Not that I would change it, because a) I like it, and b) it would be difficult or even impossible technically. #MementoMoriSocial

I've been pretty tired, stressed out, and overwhelmed lately, so there haven't been strictly bi-weekly upgrades to the server as I planned. We're still on v4.6.0-alpha.6+2026-04-05, and I don't have the energy to do the upgrades today. Maybe next week. #MementomoriSocial

It's just nice to stop by this instance again... it's still the instance close to our hearts. @rolle@mementomori.social #MementoMoriSocial

We’ve successfully MEGA-upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.6+mementomods-2026-04-05, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.6 (nightly).

This update includes today’s latest daily build with 163 new commits from upstream since mementomods-2026-03-21.

What’s new in Mastodon core - These are the changes Mastodon Team have introduced us in the latest nightly version we are running:

✨️ New features

• Profile redesign is now live (feature flag removed) — new layout with “Follows you” badge, split fields, rearranged number fields, featured tab, account featured tags nudge, alt text on avatars/headers
• Collections are now fully federated — remote account support, new page design, compact buttons, topic suggestions, tag linked FeaturedCollection objects over ActivityPub
• Email subscriptions on profiles — visitors can subscribe to public posts via email with MX record validation
• Profile editing — new API with character counter, field inline messages, avatar/header description uploads, visual fixes
• Support for FEP-2c59 and multiple keypairs for remote accounts
• Media description length limit increased from 1500 to 10,000 characters for remote attachments
• Improved relative time display when post time is in the future
• Disable extraneous Devise strategies option via DISABLE_DEVISE_TWO_STRATEGIES

🔧 Fixes & improvements

• Fix signature verification when key ID is an acct: URI
• Fix refreshing keys from stale actors on signature verification error
• Fix regressions in notifications caused by translation wrapper element
• Fix jump when loading more media gallery items
• Fix being unable to disable sound for quote update notification
• Fix Webfinger endpoint not handling new AP ID scheme
• Improve resilience of tootctl maintenance fix-duplicates command
• Improve contrast for text-warning and text-success design tokens

📦 Dependency updates

• Rails 8.1.3, Vite 8.0.3, TypeScript 6, Yarn 4.13.0, Ruby version 4.0.2
• Drop support for Ruby 3.2

🐦‍⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.6 (nightly)

• Fix translate button color not matching link color
• Fix extra border-left showing up in mobile devices
• Fix focusable background color standing out too much for account name
• Fix install script for Mastodon 2026-03-21 common.scss removal
• Fully modularize _base.scss into 40+ focused module files
• Fix Browsersync CSS hot reload by stripping CSP headers from proxied responses
• Support new profile page structure
• Remove calendar icon for “Joined” field no longer in new profile
• Style new profile page components and fix profile button colors
• Update theme tokens with latest design system tokens (upstream PR #38387)
• Remove select hack fixed in upstream
• Fix install script for new profile subdirectories

🔧 mementomods fork fixes

• Restored role badge colors lost in the profile redesign (reported upstream: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/38567)
• Fixed search reference page: migrated from removed injectIntl to useIntl hook, removed non-functional search operators

Source code: https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon

As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts.

If anything feels off, please let us know!

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Just finished optimizing and checking things after being away from this machine in particular for a while. Our server stack could theoretically handle 5k more registered users and about 1500-2000 monthly active users before we'd need to start thinking about scaling up. Right now, we have 889 users and around 410 monthly active ones and we're running at roughly 25-30% capacity. Plenty of space to grow. We're federating with nearly 42000 other servers, which is actually the heaviest part of running an instance, not the local users. Every boost, reply, and follow across the fediverse adds work for our servers. It was never my intention to grow this server this much or even have this many users, but now we have regular people, authors, political parties, organizations, YouTubers, and more. I'm still amazed about this. Yet I'm keeping a low profile because, even though we have our own admin team, at the end of the day this is still my hobby project organized by me and my wife. That said, I've done my best to keep things as flexible as possible, and our finances are stable. I'm really glad my "hobby project" has brought so much joy to so many people. If you know someone looking for a Mastodon home, we've got room 🏠 #MementoMoriSocial #MastoAdmin

It’s funny how some people say they joined because our instance is Finnish. It’s true that I’m Finnish and our servers are located in Finland, but we don’t promote ourselves as a Finnish instance, nor are we otherwise tied to Finland.

English is my second and quite dominant language, and half of my family tree is Australian. In short, all cultures and languages are welcome here.

Languages currently used on mementomori.social:

1. Finnish
2. English
3. French
4. Swedish
5. German
6. Korean
7. Dutch
8. Catalan

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Kiireinen aamu siivota spämmibotit pois mementomorista #MementomoriSocial #MastodonFi

Server updates done. Just the usual package and kernel updates, nothing out of the ordinary. Sorry for the brief glitch, in case anyone noticed it. #MastoAdmin #MementomoriSocial

We’ve successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.4+mementomods-2026-02-21, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4.

This update includes today’s latest daily build with 121 new commits from upstream since mementomods-2026-02-08.

What’s new in Mastodon core - These are the changes Mastodon Team have introduced us in the latest nightly version we are running:

✨ New features

• Theme system overhaul. This won’t affect us and is currently a bit incomplete, because we do not utilize this new color-scheme feature in our themes, yet.
• Lots of fixes and underlying changes

🔮 Upcoming

• Profile redesign and Collections are being built incrementally upstream behind experimental flags, we’ll enable them once Mastodon Bird UI support is ready
• FASP (Fediverse Auxiliary Service Providers) infrastructure continues to be developed

🐦‍⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 (nightly)

• Fix translate button color not matching link color
• Fix extra border-left showing up in mobile devices
• Updated install script for new theme infrastructure (idempotent, handles stale theme cleanup)

Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 is still a work in progress in the nightly branch. It’s not 100% ready, but it’s stable with today’s Mastodon alpha.4.

Source code: https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon

As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts.

If anything feels off, please let us know!

#MementomoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

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