Notices by Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com)

As the end of year approaches, we spent some time to rework the Wrapstodon feature that we first tried last year.

It now collects your yearly data on-demand, does not require admins to enable anything (so it will be available to everyone in December 2026) and you get a nice shareable URL with your yearly summary!

Admins on nightly releases can enable it using the "wrapstodon" feature flag. It has been enabled on mastodon.online and mastodon.social

https://oisaur.com/@renchap/wrapstodon/2025/2476cab723e6b950

#Wrapstodon2025

@tchambers I am not sure I follow what you are trying to do here.
Our idea is much simpler: when you post a Note that include URLs, the authoring server (ie, the one creating the note) will try to determine if those URLs point to AP objects. If that's the case, it will tag them, either using Object Links (FEP-e232, but we have some concerns about it) or another mecanism. The receiving server will then know this URL points to an AP object, and can have it opened in-app.

@tchambers it’s one of those things that seem simple, but are in fact not (otherwise it would already have been solved).
We keep track of multiple of those and regularly come up with new ways of possibly solving those, until we figure out something that we believe can be implemented. This is also limited by the still small size of the team (2 backed devs) but we hope to be able to continue to grow the team
@jaz @evan @strypey @rimu @Mastodon @Gargron

@jaz ActivityPub does not have the concept of a "server" or "peer”. Knowing that there is some AP inboxes on a server is a signal that a link *might* be an AP object, but you still need to fetch it and check. We do not think it's a good idea that every server does this for every link, hence our current thinking of having this done by the authoring server.
@evan @strypey @rimu @Mastodon @Gargron @tchambers

@strypey we are considering something to solve this, but are rather considering that the authoring server would add information to the Note saying that a link point to an ActivityPub object.
@rimu @Mastodon @Gargron @tchambers

@GossiTheDog you should start seeing referrers from mastodon.social again starting today. This will be back ported in the next 4.5 patch release (in the next 2 weeks)
@Gargron

@GossiTheDog Ok my bad, it looks like we have a regression from a recent refactor where we add `rel=noreferrer` to links in posts.

It will be fixed in the next version. Thanks for reporting!

@Gargron

@GossiTheDog I can correctly see the “Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin" header on cyberplace.social, so it seems to be working correctly.
@Gargron

Did Google Safe Browsing just classified all github.com URLs as unsafe? This seems… wrong? Is it a consequence of SHA1-Hulud?

Ping @GossiTheDog

Three years ago, I decided to quit Twitter and install a Mastodon server to see if it can replace it for me. It worked better than expected and I discoered so many new amazing people along the way.

I would also never have imagined that I could end up recruiting and leading the team building it!

What an adventure, and we are only getting started ✨

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115503016101266241

I am so happy with this release, it includes a lot of things we have wanted for a long time, and we managed to release it only 4 months after 4.4.

I am glad to be working alongside such an incredible team and it feels so good to finally have enough people to make real progress. Thanks you all ❤️

Now, onwards to 4.6!

@mastodonmigration You are mistaken it, this is not about quote posts. Starting with Mastodon 4.5, when you view a post (after clicking on it), Mastodon will try to fetch replies from this threads from other servers, as your server might not know about them. It will then tell you if it found more replies, and ask if you want to refresh the screen to view them. We hope this will solve the "missing replies" problem.

@tchambers

@mastodonmigration Yes, this is a simple quality of life improvement to make it easier to quote a post in a reply

@tchambers

@aslakr You can start your reply, then go to the post you want to quote, and press the boost button then quote. Same for edits.

We will make this easier in a future version by allowing you to paste a link, detect it’s a quotable post, and offer to transform it into a quote (but this is technically complex, so we will launch without it for now)

@GossiTheDog @Gargron

@GossiTheDog @Gargron As this is a very high profile feature, we are trying to minimise the time where some users have it while some others dont. We are not rushing things, but we planned from the start to release a stable version asap once we are confident it all works

@GossiTheDog @Gargron We are targeting next month for the 4.5 release, we need a bit of time to ensure there are no big issues reported now that we enabled it on mastodon.social, then we will release 4.5.0-beta1 (hopefully at the end of this month)

@tchambers @rimu The server covenant is purely declarative, I think that if we start sending the general public to a pool of servers there needs to be more checks here. But we have ideas in this area that I hope we will soon be able to make progress on.

@tchambers @rimu Yes it is, but I am worried about letting users pick their server from any server that opt in. You really want users to go on *well-managed servers* and avoid servers that depend on a unique person (high risk of the server disappearing), without proper moderation or correct operation practices. And that is without even without discussing about bad actors starting to exploit this.

@rimu @tchambers how do you build this list? Is this a directory server admins can opt into? Do you do any filtering / verification?

@evan @scottjenson something like https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/improving-the-quality-of-conversations-on-mastodon/ ?