Hello #FediVerse - The dedicated account for #Teskooano is live!

What is Teskooano you say? It's a web-based #3dEngine made with #threeJS and #webComponents to display N-Body systems. https://teskooano.space

It's buggy, still a lot of work to do - but it's already up for you to try out - it's also a #mobile friendly #pwa you can install and use offline!

This is the functionality needed to give Mastodon lists Bluesky-feed-like functionality.

It's all realistic and achievable IMHO.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33098#issuecomment-2824333838

Let’s say you have an HTTP server running locally that returns a custom Fediverse timeline… How would you make it available to fediverse clients?

First thing I have tried to build was a Firefox extension that redirects `/timelines` requests for a masto instance to the local server, but mastodon does not look happy about the different IP.

On the other side, taking an existing client (e.g. @elk) and adding an extra timeline looks way easier, but rather ad-hoc.

Riddle me this. How can a spammer start their account creation from /auth/confirmation? He does this every week. He never accesses /auth/sign_up. He always first shows up in the logs accessing /auth/confirmation.

I have his ASN blocked by the Cloudflare firewall from accessing /auth/sign_up. I see in the Cloudflare logs that he tried to access /auth/sign_up but got a 403 from Cloudflare. The request is nowhere in my logs. It was truly blocked by the proxy server.

But, then suddenly he's using /auth/confirmation with the same blocked ASN seconds later and creates the account. Today I added the same ASN restriction to /auth/confirmation to try to stop future sign-ups, but this is beside the point.

It's like he tries to go to sign_up, gets a 403, and then uses some alternative means to begin the signup process.

He's not getting in with an invitation code, either.

Can he be using an existing account in some way to get an access token for an API call of some type to begin registration?

How does he do this?

#MastoAdmin #MastoDev @Gargron @ClearlyClaire

Anyone notice that hashtags created from posts federated from bsky.brid.gy that include hashtags with punctuation point to a URL that still has them in it.

In this example, tag KilmarAbregoGarcia’s goes to URL https://oldfriends.live/tags/KilmarAbregoGarcia's on my instance. It is popping up a 404-error box but displaying KilmarAbregoGarcias results.

#MastoAdmin #MastoDev

I hate 404 errors

Was looking at `api_versions` in Mastodon's `/api/v2/instance` endpoint as this would be sort of like "feature detection" for anything new, instead of the hacky UA version string detection .

They are documented under specific features, e.g.: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/Filter/#filter_action but I was curious to see what's introduced for every version bump on a single page.

So I made one (in Notion, as screenshot here, for now), not sure if this would be useful for other devs #MastoDev

Initial work on `blur` filter for media in posts. Context: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/34256 (nightlies, not stable releases)

- Quite tricky as the post is filtered but visually not entirely "filtered"
- Need to handle case of conflicting user intentions; set "Always show media" for "Sensitive content" in settings vs "Hide media with a warning" filter
- Copy for choosing the filter action got a bit tricky. Using "obscured (media only)" for now

#PhanpySocialDev #MastoDev (still experimental, on my local)

Question for you #webdev peeps:

I've made a site and it's totally in dark mode. How I like it

But some people mentioned that I should offer a light mode toggle because "some people are not used to dark mode and won't like it".

Do you think that's valid?

(Someone else said that there's also potentially an accessibility issue with dark mode - is that true?)

#MastoAdmin #MastoDev anyone know what this rate limit error spam is about? I've had this happen intermittently on the web interface for ages

Not sure if this is true but I think it might be related to the popup autocompletes you get when typing in a hashtag or someone's username

I think the answer is "No," but is there a Mastodon API for "posts that include this link" for trending links? This feature is in the web UI. #MastoDev #Mastodon

# #Pachli 2.11.0 is released

## New features include

- Support translation throughout the app
- Experimental Markdown support
- Content filters default to all contexts

## Fixes include:

- Toot button accessibility
- Grammar fixes
- Report UI updates
- Content filter updates
- Fewer crashes

## Updated translations

- Finnish, Indonesian, Irish, Latvian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Slovak, Spanish

More details at https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/03/31/2.11.0-release.html.

#Smithereen now stores the followers/following/friends counts separately from actual lists, and so can now do this Mastodon-like thing.

You know what would be great in #mastodon? Having a separate feed/column for all the hidden/filtered posts in your Home timeline.
So that I don't need to be reminded of all the bunch of filtered stuff unless I take the effort of looking at the separate feed when I'm in the right mindset.

Two things:

1. Has anyone written a thread composer app for Mastodon? I need that. I don't write a lot of threads, but when I do I really miss old Twitter's thread composer.

2. I have to admit that I am very popular with the bots of Mastodon. It seems like a lot of my well hashtagged posts get immediate pings but they're always from robots. Is that happening to everybody?

A collection of silly Mastodon apps (the best kind). It includes a Fax-To-Mastodon app.

https://halcy.de/blog/2025/03/18/silly-mastodon-apps/

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