Mastodon, open-source, decentralized social network that offers an option for the threads of Elon Musk and the threads of the meta. Rolling Several updates with the release of Tuesday’s Mastodon 4.4.
Mostly, the app is taking the first step towards implementing a change that will bring it equal to the other network, but can also affect the user’s behavior: this quotation is preparing to integrate the post, or Twitter is used to call quotes tweets.
This type of repost allows users to quote another person’s post, and then add two cents and commentary over it. On Twitter, now called X, feature joint “led a culture of”Dive, Led more negativity Instead of encouraging conversations or healthy debate.
However, the implementation of the quotation post of Mastodon is the purpose of implementing this feature in a way that will limit the ability used for hate and harassment.
In form of The company explained earlier this yearThis will allow users to control whether their content can be quoted, and even allow users to withdraw their posts from a reference quoted at any time. In addition, users will get information when someone quotes his post.
But quotes posts are not being rolled out with Mastodon 4.4.
Instead, the organization is releasing the code that supports displaying the quotation post, which will allow users to see quotes from Sangat Feders platforms, including future mastodon releases.
Users will not actually be able to quoter posts until the Mastodon version 4.5 is released. later this year.
The 4.4 version brings more changes designed to improve other areas including profiles, navigation, lists, media control and administrator facilities.
A new “feature on my profile” option will help you to show what you want to promote, such as all your posts are with a specific hashtag, or other accounts – think the profile seems interesting to you, or you are run for your business, brand or side projects.
Mastodon will now also display your pinned posts on top of your profile in a carousel. Because the app lets users to pin up to five posts, first you had to scroll a lot if you wanted to see more recent content on someone’s profile.
There is also a new profile widget, it also shows how many people you follow, following the person you are looking at the profile.
Now it is easy to connect and remove users to list the two with profiles and to list the following and followers.
Version 4.4 also updates the media player of Mastodon with a new design: Play and poses buttons are located in the center and are easy to click, and we get hotkeys to demand, volume control and fullscreen to go to see.
On mobile, you can double-tap or pinch the photos to zoom in and out, and to close a zoom-in image, you can swipe the same as your original photo app. There is also a new reminder for adding Alt-Text to images, which helps to use vision people better.
Meanwhile, the mobile website now mimics the native mobile apps more closely, with a more consistent navigation on the action buttons and platforms in the toolbar.
In other places, the “Explore” section has been renamed as “trending”, and the sidebar navigation controls have been held in three sections: for one main navigation button, another for curated content another (eg lists, bookmarks and favorite), and a third for other elements.
For new users, the onboarding has shrunk into a two-step process from the previous four-step process, in the hope of addressing concerns that it is very complex to start on Mastodon.
Server admin is accessible New legal compliance facilitiesLike managing the terms of service, the option to offer the translation of server rules in different languages, and the option to determine the need for minimum age for new
User.
Changes follow many other updates for social networks this year, including decisions. Create a new non-profit To get away from an app run by a person in Europe, and Other expansion To your team. Recently, Mastodon Announced There are plans to offer additional services as commercial offerings to increase your revenue. Company, for the first time last year, hosted European Commission Mastodon InstanceWhich states that this can be the direction that is leading it.
