Mastodon 4.3 released (blog.joinmastodon.org)
from otter@lemmy.ca to fediverse@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 2024 14:38
https://lemmy.ca/post/30554077

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/21166273

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otter@lemmy.ca on 08 Oct 2024 14:44 next collapse

Helping writers and journalists

In this version we’re introducing a new way to highlight writers and journalists on the fediverse. By adding a single line to their HTML, publishers can feature the fediverse profile of the page author in the link previews on Mastodon. That way, when lots of different people are sharing the link, or the link is trending in the News tab, you can easily navigate to the author’s fediverse profile and follow them right from within Mastodon to receive future updates. Publications like The Verge and TechCrunch are already using this.

We’ve also put a fresh coat of paint on our website embeds. You’ve always been able to embed a Mastodon post on your own website, but we’ve made them look a lot better and gave them a more graceful fallback when the source is slow to load or no longer available. Of course, the dialog for embedding a post now looks a lot better as well, offering a simple click to copy button. Keep in mind that you can only embed posts that are public!

Well that’s cool!

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Oct 2024 15:58 next collapse

Now that 4.3 is done, our focus for the next release will be on implementing the highly requested features of quote posts

OMG, it’s actually happening!?

Binette@lemmy.ml on 08 Oct 2024 16:42 next collapse

Oh god

Blaze@feddit.org on 08 Oct 2024 17:34 next collapse

Nice

JRepin@lemmy.ml on 09 Oct 2024 08:21 collapse

I hope not. Had very bad experience with these and toxicity they enabled on Xitter and one of the main reasons why I left it for mastodon quite early. I would much more like to see if they focused on making it possible to also migrate posts when you change an instance/server.

nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip on 09 Oct 2024 09:15 collapse

Quote post can be useful if implemented with more control, not just copying existing Twitter quote.

I recall the dev want to let user disable quote on individual post.

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 08 Oct 2024 23:12 collapse

Awesome update and I’m very excited for their next one. Recommendation algorithms are now a must have if you want to attract younger people to the platform.