I made a follow up request to "reexamine my original request and write a summary of changes that end users will see in an understandable way"
Okay, I will try to write a summary of changes that end users will see in Mastodon version 4.2.0-beta2. Here is what I came up with:
Mastodon is a social network that lets you communicate with people from different websites that use the same protocol. In the latest version of Mastodon, some new features and improvements have been added to make your experience better. Here are some of the changes that you will notice:
You can now change your privacy and reach settings in one place. This lets you control who can see and interact with your posts and account more easily. You can find this option in your profile settings under the “Privacy and reach” tab.
When you write a post with hashtags, they will be shown separately at the bottom of your post. This makes it easier to see what topics your post is about and to search for them.
When someone sends you a message or edits their message, Mastodon will automatically refresh their account information. This means you will always see the latest profile picture, display name, and bio of the person you are talking to.
If you are an administrator of a Mastodon server, you can see more information about how your server is using Elasticsearch on the dashboard. Elasticsearch is a tool that helps you search for posts and accounts faster and more accurately.
Mastodon can now understand a new attribute for remote actors. An actor is a term for an account or a group on Mastodon or other websites that use the same protocol. The new attribute tells Mastodon whether the actor can be searched for or not.
There are two new options in the REST API for deleting your avatar and header images. The REST API is a way for developers to interact with Mastodon using code. These options let you remove your profile pictures without uploading new ones.
There are some new environment variables for compatibility and customization of some settings and tools. An environment variable is a setting that affects how Mastodon works on your server. These variables let you adjust some aspects of how Mastodon stores files online, searches data, clears cache, and accesses database.
The follow recommendation materialized view has been changed to be faster in most cases. This is a technical term for how Mastodon generates suggestions for who to follow based on your interests and activity. This change means you will see more relevant and up-to-date recommendations faster.
Some bugs have been fixed, such as blocking subdomains of an already-blocked domain, preserving the language from the replied-to post, making the “Create Account” button in the interaction modal work, fixing the styling of the unfollow icon in the advanced column, showing the “legal” report category in the moderation interface, updating the stats of cached posts, uploading video files with unusual framerate, and matching the avatar and header image preview in profile settings.
These are some of the changes that end users will see in Mastodon version 4.2.0-beta2. I hope this summary helps you understand what’s new and improved in Mastodon!
As you may have already noticed, 3 new admins have been added. Welcome @TruckBC , @Shadow , and @Jarcode! There are also many more people that are helping behind the scenes as well. They have many years of experience moderating various subreddits, and I believe that they can bring lemmy.ca to the next level....
if you can't embed the tweets, replace all your tweets with screenshots. theres probably a twitter screenshot tool with login functionality to do a batch process of all your links.
where else were they suppose to run them alongside of. covid-vaccine conspiracies , election fraud claims, boycott tweets or dubious investment advice tweets?
Example URL: https://lemmy.world/post/241226?scrollToComments=true
Include pattern: ^(?:https?://)(?:www.)?(?:lemmy.world|lemm.ee|vlemmy.net|discuss.tchncs.de|lemmy.fmhy.ml|sh.itjust.works|beehaw.org|feddit.de|lemmy.one|lemmy.ca|lemmynsfw.com|lemmy.blahaj.zone|lemmygrad.ml|lemmy.dbzer0.com|midwest.social|lemmy.sdf.org|programming.dev|aussie.zone|feddit.uk|dormi.zone|startrek.website|feddit.it|feddit.nl|pawb.social|infosec.pub|feddit.dk|slrpnk.net|lemmy.nz|mander.xyz|feddit.cl|reddthat.com|szmer.info|lemmy.zip|lemmy.pt|latte.isnot.coffee|lemmy.kya.moe|dataterm.digital|waveform.social|exploding-heads.com|pathofexile-discuss.com|sub.wetshaving.social|yiffit.net|iusearchlinux.fyi|partizle.com|monero.town|mtgzone.com|lemmyrs.org|pathfinder.social|toast.ooo|lemmy.studio|lemmy.click|lemmy.film|fanaticus.social|lemmy.radio|lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz|lemmy.spacestation14.com|lemmy.eus|possumpat.io|rammy.site|discuss.online|compuverse.uk|lemmy.tf|preserve.games|dmv.social|lemmy.villa-straylight.social|lemmy.perthchat.org|thegarden.land|thelemmy.club|thegarden.land|ash1-lem-i1-u4829.vm.elestio.app|stars.leemoon.network|forum.basedcount.com|diggit.xyz|feddit.ch|r-sauna.fi|lemmy.whynotdrs.org|lemmy.wtf|lemmyfly.org|lemmy.picote.ch|lemmy.podycust.co.uk|picify.podycust.co.uk|bookwormstory.social|terefere.eu|social.fossware.space|lemmy.podycust.co.uk|aiparadise.moe|poptalk.scrubbles.tech|feddit.ro|lemmy.ko4abp.com|suppo.fi|group.lt|booty.world|lemmy.cafe|tucson.social|lib.lgbt|lemmy.srv.eco)/post/(?:s/)?(.*)
Redirect to: https://MyLemmyInstance.com/post/$1
Pattern type: Regular Expression
Description: redirect lemmy instances to my own
replace Mylemmyinstance.com with your own domain.
i scraped the lemmy instances from the join-lemmy instance list. you can add in a instance just bey separating it with | .
Note: this redirector rule will only redirect domains that has "/post/" in the url otherwise it'll just go to the site. i haven't tested any of the instances to see if they use something other than /post/ .
update: i made a mistake because i misunderstood how the federation links work.. i'll try to fix it.
A certain stage of development has ended - a prototype was created that allowed me to verify whether such a form makes sense in the #fediverse. Until now, it was a project that I developed in my free time. Now, thanks to the great people from Nlnet, I will be able to devote much more time to it. This time, we have already...
New Admins, Server Upgraded
As you may have already noticed, 3 new admins have been added. Welcome @TruckBC , @Shadow , and @Jarcode! There are also many more people that are helping behind the scenes as well. They have many years of experience moderating various subreddits, and I believe that they can bring lemmy.ca to the next level....
The most beautiful apple tart I've ever made (lemmy.world)
It only took me about 4 hours to make lol
What Search Engine or terms do you use?
What search engine do you use? What terms might you use to filter out junk?...
Ah yes, famously apolitical Star Trek (cdn.discordapp.com)
Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, NBA Alongside Neo-Nazi Videos (gizmodo.com)
Ads from household-name brands and nonprofits are appearing beside clips of a film blaming Jews for causing World War II.
What Reddit features do you *not* want kbin to have?
in what ways do you think kbin should strive to be different from Reddit?
Are there any browser extensions that redirect external links to Lemmy to your home instance?
Use Firefox so that is preferred. Thanks in advance.
OC I think that it is a good thing that Kbin got "locked down" behind CloudFlare and unfederated as we settle in.
I created an account on both Lemmy.World and here, and I have to say, I kind of wish that all the servers experienced something similar. Why?...
Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts (www.theverge.com)
Revolt, free and open-source alternative to Discord, has hit 100,000 registered users. (revolt.chat)
Kbin Roadmap 2023
A certain stage of development has ended - a prototype was created that allowed me to verify whether such a form makes sense in the #fediverse. Until now, it was a project that I developed in my free time. Now, thanks to the great people from Nlnet, I will be able to devote much more time to it. This time, we have already...