Notices by Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social)

I don't know how recent this change is but I noticed #Firefox removed https:// from the address bar so now every link and every website I visit looks insecure. I know there is a padlock icon next to the address bar but it doesn't seem quite as easily scannable to me.

Mastodonのぬいぐるみを準備しています! 彼はやわらかくてふわふわとした友だちです。高さ35cmで丸っこくて抱き心地抜群!

できるだけ多くの人に楽しんでもらえるようにお求めやすい価格にしたいと考えています。

John Mastodon

I've changed quite a few parts on joinmastodon.org/servers today in response to the feedback from the past week. In detail:

You can now filter by region, type of legal entity, and sign-up speed. Added note about why the topics filter exists. Changed tagline.

"Get on waitlist" has become "Apply for an account" for servers that manually review new sign-ups. Removed total user count from cards.

199,430 is the number of new users across different Mastodon servers since October 27, along with 437 new servers. This bring last day's total to 608,837 active users, which is without precedent the highest it's ever been for Mastodon and the fediverse.

Mastodon™

What’s up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKj0xzFF_xk

Somebody gave Mastodon's official iOS app a 1-star review on the App Store because "there are too many Taiwan independence" [sic, translation]. That's a first! Also, Taiwan is a country.

Language selection is now available in the Mastodon web app. Make sure your posts are seen by people who understand them!

Supports quickly finding the right language with fuzzy search and remembers your most frequently selected languages.

#mastodev

@noellabo Crawling happens every hour. Descriptions are maintained manually since the API ones are often not usable. You need to contact me for changes.

Mastodon has a verification mechanism, though it looks different from Twitter's. We do not ask for your documents. Instead, if you have a website that you are known by, you can verify that you are the owner of that website.

Link to your Mastodon profile from the website, either through a visible link, or through a <link> tag in the head of the document, with a rel=me attribute, and link back to that page from your Mastodon profile. It should then get a green checkmark, like @Mastodon.

It is #caturday.

If you created your account a long time ago, you may be seeing Mastodon's advanced web interface (multiple columns). That interface has not been the default for years now. You can control which one you see from Preferences.

Now would be the prime time for any Mastodon admins with servers capable of accepting new users and scaling up to submit them to joinmastodon.org

More info: https://joinmastodon.org/covenant Shoot me an e-mail at hello@joinmastodon.org

Okay, it is a little strange that Mastodon still doesn't come up in Google Play Store search. Anyone know what could be the reason?

Guess what! Mastodon’s official #Android app was finally approved and is now on the Play Store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.joinmastodon.android

F-Droid submission still being processed.

Still waiting :cate:

We're also bringing back e-mail notifications for mentions and follows being on by default, but now we won't send an e-mail if you already have an app that gets push notifications or you're connected to the web app.

The "sign-in token" authentication scheme, where you had to enter a code from an e-mail if logging in from a new IP address, created too many issues, so in 3.5.1 we're going back on it. Instead, you'll just get an e-mail about a new sign-in if it's from a new IP address.