Mastodon

After many months of design, development, gathering feedback, and testing, today we’re releasing a big update with Mastodon 4.6. The headliner of this release is Collections, a way to create and share curated collections of profiles. Part of Mastodon’s work ethos is our commitment to trust and safety, so we’ve put a lot of thought and care into the design of this feature to avoid some of the pitfalls and abuse people have experienced with similar features on other platforms, while focusing on its primary goal: Helping new users discover more of the Fediverse.

Uploaded a photo to make a post, was uploading another one for another post and it stalled out. Now trying to refresh the page, but it never loads.

I'm able to access mastodon.social from another browser, and from an android app. So doesn't appear that the site is down or its an account level block.

Is there some policy that blocks people uploading things? Can I expect to be unblocked one day?

Hi, everybody. I'm testing the different Mastodon apps to see which I like best. A big issue I've stumbled on is notifications not working in Moshidon, Pachli, and Tusky. They're all set to not be automatically managed power consumption-wise, and the notification options are all set to yes. The official Mastodon app works fine, so I have no idea what could be the issue.

Can anybody help?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45484461

Only found them by coincidence ;)

1️⃣ In "/settings/preferences/appearance" under "Advanced settings" you can find the option to "Warn me before posting media without alt text"

You can see the error message I see whenever I forget alttext in the second image hehe

2️⃣ When you post an image with text in it, you can simply use the magic AI feature "Add text from image". It usually works very well!

Alt text: "Screenshot of the warning you get with the warning for missing alt enabled. "Add alt text? Your post contains media without alt text. Adding descriptions helps make your content accessible to more people." Below it are 3 buttons "Cancel" "Post anyway" and "Add alt text"

Alt text: "Screenshot of the alt text window, the option "Add text from image" is circled in red.

This is how that "AI" option described the text of the image I posted: "Describe this for people with visual impairments. 1500 Add text from image"

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45437770

I've been thinking a lot about the Fediverse ALT issue.

Some people are annoyed by posts without Alttext, & others get reminded¹ to add it.

The core question is: How can we improve accessibility?

Proposal: ☑️ Add a user filter to hide media posts without AltTag ☑️ Reduced engagement on hidden posts would encourage adding Alt text ☑️ People who need accessibility wouldn't have to encounter unlabeled media

If this gets traction, I'll open a Mastodon GitHub issue (maybe on others too?).

¹ https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/113996311493021102

I tried to migrate from mastodon.social to vivaldi for the 1000+ character limit. I found out that it doesn't display favorites from accounts that aren't on vivaldi. I made an account on toot.cat and the same thing happened. Also I can't see the trending section in my toot.cat account. Isn't mastodon supposed to show faves from all servers? Why is this happening?

It happens only when I open the "home" timeline. The trending, local, and federated timelines still load normally. Am I the only one getting this error? Can I fix it somehow?

Before you comment, please know that I'm not complaining. Someone asked this in Mastodon and it's a good question because if you don't block Threads dot net, then you can look people up and follow them and vice versa.

In my home feed I see posts from other Mastodon servers but not from Threads. Why is that? Thanks in advance

Edit There are no Threads dot net posts in my Global feed either. And I haven't blocked Threads either.

I setup my own self-hosted mastodon instance and Im curious if there is a way to setup scheduled posts with it? or if I need some other tool.
I know some mobile and desktop apps, along with some websites let you do that, but it would be much nicer if it was just built in so I could do it from the browser and not have to worry if my phone app or laptop is on during the scheduled time.
Does anyone have experience with schedules posts?

Some interesting new features incoming:

• “Featured” tab on profiles
• Browsing user's activity on hashtag
• Quote posts

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When searching for relevant accounts, I often come across users on Twitter/X with a birdsite mastodon bridge such as @firefox@birdsite.monster, which seems to be the most followed Firefox account on mastodon.

However, this account has no visible posts, and when I follow it I get a “Pending”.

How does this work? Thanks

I enjoy Mastodon, but there is only a thing bugging me. When I access my home feed, I see many posts from a specific user. Can I limit his posts on my side?

~~It works on Lemmy and Bluesky…~~

It works on Lemmy in the Arctic iOS app and on Bluesky… (edited after [@Ludrol@szmer.info] (https://szmer.info/u/Ludrol) corrected me).

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9h9tkm

https://lemm.ee/comment/19452399

I've tried most of the well known apps but I have never been satisfied with the UI, I keep getting back to the website which doesn't live up to be a daily driver due to lack of performance. The closest one I have used is Subway Tooter, which also has some questionable UI choices. Where it tries to implement everything, but it ends up looking cluttered and clunky.