As a Mastodon user of the official Mastodon mobile application who wants to read the contents of the ALT text description of an image...
how do you do that? No amount of tapping or long press has done the trick for me, it must be something really trivial that I'm missing, or it's completely counterintuitive.
Is this the intended behaviour, that the ALT text is unreadable on mobile unless you use a screen reader?
Alright here's a draft of adding post titles and slugified URLs to masto. Needs tests and a little tidying, but this is a first small step towards a couple things that i think will be cool to do halfway between microblogging and forums :) https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/pull/35
If anyone who knows rails and redux better than me wants to laugh at my code (but secretly i will be learning) then feel free to take a whap at it
(edit: yes i know other fedi things and in fact many normal websites already do this) #MastoDev
I'm playing around with mastodon 4.2 advanced search, digging into the code a bit. Really trying to do some trickery here but the devs have it pretty well locked down to exactly what is documented. I thought I could inject some elasticsearch precedence or other patterns but those are purely ignored (or cause issues with the search)
Honestly not sure if I'm even using the right syntax but looks close.
While I'm currently working on many (and I mean many) New And Improved™ moderation tools in #Smithereen, I also added a tiny user-facing thing because clicking CWs one by one was tedious to say the least.
When I have a popular post with lots of replies, I reply back, which is fun! But it just dawned on me that by default, all of my replies are public which just spams peoples feed. That seems rude.
Is there a Mastdon client that lets me set my replies to default to Unlisted? I can certainly switch it EVERY SINGLE TIME I REPLY but that seems silly. An "Always reply Unlisted" option would be great. (@elk and @phanpy don't appear to offer this) #UX#Mastodev
Is there anyone working on generalizing the Mastodon API, or documentation to follow for apps that are using it for things other then Mastodon? #fedidev#mastodev#mastodonapi#APIdev
It'd be really neat if you could create a filter for a specific profile.
For example, if someone didn't want to see any of the posts I make about a specific topic (with a specific term), but wanted to see posts containing that term from everyone else, it'd be nice for them to be able to do that. It presumably wouldn't be that much harder to implement than what's already there in filters that apply to whole timelines. 🤔
Introducing a new major feature for StreetPass: Hiding profiles!
Now you can hide and unhide profiles in your StreetPass list to keep things organized. If you wanna go full Inbox Zero mode, there's also an option to automatically hide profiles when clicked! (ty @prenagha for the great feature suggestion)
Learning that the Mastodon V2 Search API is pretty finicky. Advanced search criteria must be entered in a specific structure or the whole thing goes bonkers.
I understand why people are upset and concerned about #Threads joining the social web. Most of us have been burned, or considerably worse, by #Meta before.
@haubles And even if you want to go "off by default" with Threads as an admin, you can still let users individually decide if they want to touch Threads or not by silencing Threads.
That said, it would be nice if there was a way for users to see why an account or instance is silenced, as a CW. #MastoDev@Mastodon
On the Mastodon Public Roadmap this feature isn't even in the "Planned" section: https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap 😐 (MAS-37 Restrict who can reply to a post)
If you too think this very basic safety feature, one of the most thumbsed-up on the Mastodon issue list, should be a higher priority, go to the Github issue and add your 👍 and a comment to bump it into the devs' awareness: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8565
Oh! Ha! I just discovered that a branch I had kicking around for Mastodon to implement the ability for admins & mods to prevent posting to specific hashtag was actually merged and landed in mainline Mastodon.
domanda nabba su activitypub perchè faccio prima a chiedere che provare a capirlo dai docs sparsi:
se io postassi un toot con privacy tale che determinato toot possa essere visto solo da @enverdemichelis , i server federati fetcherebbero lo stesso il toot per poi non mostrarlo o non possono proprio fetcharlo?
per capire se la fiducia si deve estendere a chiunque sia capace di sifonare tramite activitypub o solo i server delle persone con le quali avviene la conversazione privata (che sì ok appunto gli admin del server in cui sono io e il server in cui è un'altra persona possono sicuramente vederlo ma non è un problema)
@ex_06@enverdemichelis Ho appena notato un'altra curiosità: quando rispondo con un toot "protetto" a un toot "pubblico", quest'ultimo viene federato da tutte le istanze di chi mi segue. In alcune circostanze ciò potrebbe rivelare quantomeno gli argomenti di cui gli utenti di un'istanza stanno discutendo in "privato". (Per esempio ho visto un'istanza con poche dozzine di utenti attivi dove è facile indovinare che l'unica occorrenza di un certo hashtag è arrivata per causa mia.)