Mastodon 4.3
blog.joinmastodon.org
Grouped notifications, notification filtering, better onboarding and a refreshed look await in this new release of our decentralized open-source social media software.
  • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    40·
    25 days ago

    Helping writers and journalists

    In this version we’re introducing a new way to highlight writers and journalists on the fediverse. By adding a single line to their HTML, publishers can feature the fediverse profile of the page author in the link previews on Mastodon. That way, when lots of different people are sharing the link, or the link is trending in the News tab, you can easily navigate to the author’s fediverse profile and follow them right from within Mastodon to receive future updates. Publications like The Verge and TechCrunch are already using this.

    We’ve also put a fresh coat of paint on our website embeds. You’ve always been able to embed a Mastodon post on your own website, but we’ve made them look a lot better and gave them a more graceful fallback when the source is slow to load or no longer available. Of course, the dialog for embedding a post now looks a lot better as well, offering a simple click to copy button. Keep in mind that you can only embed posts that are public!

    Well that’s cool!

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    351·
    25 days ago

    Now that 4.3 is done, our focus for the next release will be on implementing the highly requested features of quote posts

    OMG, it’s actually happening!?

    • Jure Repinc@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      25 days ago

      I hope not. Had very bad experience with these and toxicity they enabled on Xitter and one of the main reasons why I left it for mastodon quite early. I would much more like to see if they focused on making it possible to also migrate posts when you change an instance/server.

      • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        25 days ago

        Quote post can be useful if implemented with more control, not just copying existing Twitter quote.

        I recall the dev want to let user disable quote on individual post.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    81·
    25 days ago

    Awesome update and I’m very excited for their next one. Recommendation algorithms are now a must have if you want to attract younger people to the platform.