Folks using the Mastodon API will probably like this! Advertising deprecations in API responses: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30308

#MastoDev #Mastodon #MastoAPI

Advertise deprecated endpoints via Deprecation headers ( draft-ietf-httpapi-deprecation-header-03 ) · Issue #30308 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch Currently notices of deprecated endpoints are exclusively listed in that endpoints' documentation Version History. This means that people may not notice that they are using deprecated endpoin...

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In case someone wants possibly the longest thread on the fediverse for testing purposes, here you go: https://mastodon.social/@brownpau/112322747861701800
With the way I store replies in #Smithereen, this will soon exceed my limit of 256 levels ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#activitypub #mastodev

If you make tools for Mastodon, consider increasing compatibility with the rest of the fediverse.

This guide might help.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/making-fediverse-apps-for-everyone/

#tutorial #fediverse #mastodon #fedidev #mastodev

Fediverse: An overview for government agencies

Lessons learned from making apps that play nice with the fediverse.

^{Stefan Bohacek (stefanbohacek.com)}

We just published our first Trunk & Tidbits post! This will hopefuly be a monthly update where we showcase what we worked on last month, and what's coming next.

I hope this will bring more visibility to all the efforts and love that put on Mastodon

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/05/trunk-tidbits-april-2024/

#mastoadmin #mastodev #mastodon

What's the proper URL for searching through Mastodon if you were doing a search via a URL?

For example, searching 'SearchContent has: media" Google would be https://www.google.com/search?q=searchcontent+has%3A+media"

I would like to add my Mastodon instance to my browsers search engines list. Interestingly, Miskey and Sharkey and some other federated platforms I've been to are already added.

I'm getting great results for content from my Mastodon search than Google and Bing, + no ads, and tracking.

#MastoAdmin #MastoDev

Featured hashtags on Mastodon were originally going to be a really useful feature, content filters for people's profiles. But the actual implementation put them off to the side (where trending hashtags usually are) and hid them on mobile web view.

They were originally supposed to be above the timeline on a profile (see screenshot) so that people could easily and intuitively filter your posts. I've started an issue asking for this to be implemented, feel free to join with posts or thumbs if this interests you:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30073

They already have the code for this, hopefully would be quick to implement.

#Mastodon #MastoDev

Hello fedi. i am trying to solve the "fetch all replies" problem once and for all that makes the fedi feel a lot more desolate and with a lot more reply guys in it than it should be. this is take two, where before i had it triggered by a button, but now i think it should happen on the server-side whenever you expand a post. can anyone help me out figure out how to make this more efficient by only fetching posts that the server doesn't already have? i am not sure what the best strategy would be, and if anyone with experience doing efficient rails and SQL stuff could give me some pointers that would be gr8. the patch is actually extremely simple it just needs a few nice things to make it not DDoS everyone.

https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/pull/44

Issue that describes approach: https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/issues/43
Wiki page: https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Fetch_All_Replies

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Fetch all replies · Issue #43 · NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon

Pitch When expanding a post, the instance should fetch all replies from the host server. This issue is to move more general conversation out of #8 because i think that's the wrong approach Previous...

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