Notices by Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social), page 26

I guess I just don't have the energy to think about G+ shutting down and what if anything it means for Mastodon right now ?

New DMs screen

What it means, in this screenshot for example, is that @dansup and pixelfed.social/dansup are the same person. That could be any link: homepage, blog, other Mastodon profile, Twitter profile

I know trying to educate about it in a toot is futile 'cause the people who'll be confused by it won't see this message, but I'll do it anyway for the record:

Mastodon does not have a verification badge. And if it did, it would not be near the name where it's so easily spoofed by custom emoji and standard unicode.

What Mastodon does have, in the upcoming version, is link ownership verification, and it's on the profile view.

Link verification for remote accounts has been fixed. Unfortunately it seems like there's still confusion about the :verified: custom emoji that some admins decided to unleash on the fediverse. I mean, I've seen countless people confused by standard unicode checkmarks, and here you got the Twitter badge as a custom emoji. Personally think it's a bit irresponsible. Maybe display names should not support custom emojis after all, god knows they're bad for screen readers anyway.

me irl

So uh, Mastodon has been around for 2 years now. Wow

2.6.0 should follow relatively soon

#Mastodon 2.5.1 is out with some backported security fixes

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.5.1

With a month passed since 2.5.0, I wonder if people would prefer me to dump the current progress in 2.6.0?

Out of 18 features planned for 2.6.0, 9 are done and 3 are almost done. The rest could be postponed to 2.7.0, if there is demand...

Before you ask, the roadmap can be viewed here: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/projects/6

Legolas contemplates why he is so handsome and good
#mastocats #legoposting #fluffy #handsome #cat