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[Sushubh]

Woolly for Mastodon App - App Store

Download Woolly for Mastodon by Matteo Villa on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Woolly for Mastodon.

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Woolly is a fast and customisable Mastodon client.

• Fully customisable main screen
• Pin your most frequently used timelines, lists or followed hashtags to the tab bar
• Customise your tab icons
• Add unlimited tabs
• Threaded replies view for better conversations reading
• Easily search, browse and save timelines from other Mastodon instances
• Timeline filters to quickly hide boosts or replies
• Support for push notifications
• Manage all your Mastodon accounts in one place
• Powerful multi-column layout on iPad, showing all your favourite content in one place
• Multiple light or dark themes, with a special option optimised for OLED displays
• Customisable accent color
• Quickly add GIFs to your posts, thanks to GIPHY integration
• Support for all Mastodon features: content warnings, polls, bookmarks, followed hashtags, trending posts/tags and links, custom emojis

Upgrade to Woolly Pro to unlock all features:

• Compose and submit new posts
• Log into multiple accounts
• Customize your main screen tab bar
• Access additional themes

 

[Sushubh]

Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?

How Mastodon was prepared for Elon Musk’s Twitter to fail.

www.theverge.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

Mastodon Link Debugger

mastodon-link-debugger.vercel.app

Link verification fails silently when page size exceeds 1MB · Issue #15316 · mastodon/mastodon

Expected behaviour Adding a link in the specified rel="me" format to a webpage, and then adding that webpage to a user profile, causes the link to be identified as verified. Actual behaviour Link o...

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TIL. Thankfully they fixed it.

 

[Sushubh]

Source

bluesky is the hottest product people want to join on twitter. meanwhile, mastodon finally seems to be doing some work on thread display.

 

[Sushubh]

A new onboarding experience on Mastodon

Today we’re making signing up on Mastodon easier than ever before. We understand that deciding which Mastodon service provider to kick off your experience with can be confusing. We know this is a completely new concept for many people, since traditionally the platform and the service provider...

blog.joinmastodon.org

 

[Sushubh]

Mozilla Social Private Beta Launch | The Mozilla Blog

The internet isn’t just about browsers. Browsers are a critical part of the human experience on the internet and will always be core to our work at Mozil

blog.mozilla.org

 

[Sushubh]

Mastodon for Android update

Today, Mastodon for Android has received a complete Material You redesign. We left no stone unturned — tab bars, settings, composing — everything is refreshed and reflects your color palette.

blog.joinmastodon.org

material looks great and weird on mastodon at the same time.

 

[Sushubh]

BBC has launched their own instance at BBC Mastodon

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and its possibilities for the BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Sushubh]

Add new public status index by jsgoldstein · Pull Request #26344 · mastodon/mastodon

This is a follow up to #25951 The idea here is to allow public posts by discoverable users to show up in search results. This is done by adding a new Public Status Index to Elastic Search. A status...

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mastodon is reverting another one of their original policies and would soon allow full text search. there are some safeguards but a lot of people are not happy.

 

[Sushubh]

list import support is also coming so that's nice.

Release v4.2.0-beta1 · mastodon/mastodon

⚠️ This is a beta release! This is primarily aimed at server administrators who are willing to report issues, and may be less reliable than stable releases, although it is still tested on mastodon....

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