We've successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.4+mementomods-2026-02-08, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4.

This update includes today's latest daily build with 112 new commits from upstream since alpha.3 (2026-01-24).

What's new in Mastodon core - These are the changes Mastodon Team have introduced us in the latest nightly version we are running:

🔒 Security
- Upstream security patch

✨ New features (some only on the back end for now)
- Better language support: Horizontal and vertical posts can now coexist
- Mute end date now shown in badge
- Text-autospace added to post content
- Collections: create, edit, delete, and federated across servers
- Store remote actors' profile pic and header descriptions
- Flag to preserve cached media on cleanup

🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix quote cancel button appearing in all statuses
- Fix followers with bell icon being notified of post edits
- Fix quote cancel button not appearing after edit then delete-and-redraft
- Fix remote account last status tracking
- Fix filtering of mentions from filtered-on-their origin-server accounts
- Fix connection leak issues
- Fix duplicate hashtag processing in object updates

🔧 Other
- "Anyone can quote" label changed to "quotes allowed"
- Various dependency updates (pg, brakeman, dotenv, pino, paperclip, etc.)

🔮 Upcoming
- A profile redesign is being built incrementally upstream
- Pinned posts, follow button reorg, featured tags, badges, timeline filters, and more are landing as foundational pieces.

🐦‍⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 (nightly)
- Fix translate button color not matching link color
- Fix extra border-left showing up in mobile devices

Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 is still a work in progress in the nightly branch. It's not 100% ready, but it's stable with today's Mastodon alpha.4.

Source code: github.com/mementomori-social/…

As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts.

If anything feels off, please let us know!

#MementomoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

RE: mstdn.social/@stux/11600247657…

It’s absurd that instance owners have to beg for support like it’s a favor.

If you rely on a service, do the grown-up thing and help pay for it.

Servers, storage, moderation, and uptime aren’t powered by vibes.

Even $5 / €5 helps.

Check your server’s About page. If you can afford a coffee, you can afford to contribute.

Parting shot: if Mastodon really cared about growing the ecosystem, funding tools would already be built in for #Mastoadmin use. Looking at you, @Gargron 👀

stux⚡️

2026-02-02 18:35:20

It's maybe a little early since the bills for servers, media storage and emails come around the 20th but since I just moved it was an very expensive month..

If you can and want, please think about donating to our services

paypal.me/stuxOS
patreon.com/mstdn
ko-fi.com/mstdn
bunq.me/stuxhost
stux.me/donate
liberapay.com/mstdn

Thank you SO much ❤️

stux.me:~$ Support By Donation

Most if not all the work I do (online) I give away for free! Personally I dislike advertisements so I won't apply those either.

^{stux (stux.me:~$)}

We've successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.3+mementomods-2026-01-24, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4.

This update includes today's latest daily build with 107 new commits from upstream since alpha.2 (2026-01-11).

What's new in Mastodon core - These are the changes Mastodon Team have introduced us in the latest nightly version we are running:

🔒 Security
- Updated lodash to v4.17.23 (security fix)
- Multiple security patches merged from upstream

✨ New Features
- Collections: "My collections" page, featured collections, collection endpoints
- Profile redesign (in Mastodon core theme only): verified badges, account name tyling, profile fields redesign
- New UI components: Callout, Toggle, MiniCard, form fields

🎨 Theming system
- New file-based theme system with data-color scheme and data-contrast attributes
- High-contrast styles added to common stylesheet
- Updated embedded styling and error pages for new theme infrastructure

🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed quote cache invalidation
- Fixed cross-server conversation tracking
- Fixed keyboard navigation in media modal
- Fixed directory showing load more button incorrectly
- Fixed quote approval policy being reset on status update
- Fixed delivery worker error counting
- Fixed isDarkMode utility

🔧 Other updates
- Bumped to v4.5.5
- Removed deprecated ImageMagick usage
- Updated Node.js to 24.13
- Various dependency updates and translations

🐦‍⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4:
- Migrated to new file-based theme system
- Added semantic token overrides for light theme
- Fixed missing search icon in dark theme
- Release: github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mas…

Check out the source code of our fork: github.com/mementomori-social

Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 is still a work in progress in the nightly branch. It's not 100% ready, but it's stable with today's Mastodon alpha.3.

As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts.

#MementomoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI

A major update is coming soon for my Mastodon instance and for Mastodon Bird UI. Here's how the system is changing from the old version (pre-v4.6.0-alpha.3):

Old system:

- The HTML used a data-user-theme="mastodon-bird-ui-dark" attribute.
- Mastodon Bird UI used selectors like html[data-user-theme="mastodon-bird-ui-dark"] to apply styles only when that theme was active.
- Multiple themes could exist in one stylesheet, applied conditionally through these selectors.

New system (v4.6.0-alpha.3):

- The data-user-theme attribute no longer exists.
- The theme is now defined by which stylesheet file is loaded through themes.yml.
- If your stylesheet is loaded, your styles automatically apply.
- The only HTML attributes now are: data-color-scheme="dark|light|auto" for the user's color preference and data-contrast="normal|high" for the user's contrast preference

What this means for Mastodon Bird UI:
- Bird UI currently wraps everything in selectors like html[data-user-theme="mastodon-bird-ui-dark"] to apply styles only when that theme is selected.
- In the new system, these selectors must be removed entirely. If the Mastodon Bird UI stylesheet is loaded, its styles should apply directly. The loaded file itself now determines the active theme.

github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mas…

#MastodonBirdUI #CSS #MastoAdmin #OpenSource #BuildInPublic #BirdUI #Mastodon