Updates from the Mastodon team
Adding sign-up to your Mastodon app
Since Mastodon 2.7, it is actually possible to let users sign up through your app, instead of asking them to go to a Mastodon website directly and then return. Let’s go over how this can be done.
Eugen Rochko
Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder
Mastodon 3.0 in-depth
Detailed notes on REST API changes, new deployment options, new admin settings and how to use them
Eugen Rochko
Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder
Mastodon 3.0
In this exciting new release: Moving accounts, trending hashtags, private servers and more!
Eleanor
Guest
Gab switches to Mastodon's code
After crowdfunding millions of dollars, social media platform Gab abandoned its own code and switched to the freely available Mastodon software in early 2019 as a way of circumventing Google’s and Apple’s ban on their own app from their app stores, since offering Mastodon’s client-side API would allow any existing Mastodon app to be used to access Gab. We have never had any sympathy for their thinly (if at all) veiled white supremacist platform so that was not a welcome move on our part, however the license that we publish our software under (AGPLv3) allows anyone to use it as they see fit as long as they keep the same license and make their modifications public.
Eugen Rochko
Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder
Mastodon 2.9
The latest release of Mastodon introduces a simplified single-column interface as the new default for new users
Eleanor
Guest
How to migrate from one server to another
With the sad news that KNZK was shutting down we thought it might be useful for people to have a refresher on the features that Mastodon has built in that make moving instances easy and painless. Backing up Your Data Data export If you are moving to a new instance the first thing you will want to do is to get a backup of all of your data. Thankfully this process is painless with the Data Export tab under the “Import and Export” page. Here you can download your followers list, your muted users list and your blocked users list.
Eleanor
Guest
Introducing the Mastodon Server Covenant
To provide a safer experience to new Mastodon users, we are changing the joinmastodon.org server picker
Eugen Rochko
Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder
Improving support for adult content on Mastodon
Using the Blurhash algorithm in Mastodon 2.8.1 to generate prettier previews for sensitive media
Eugen Rochko
Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder
Mastodon 2.8
In this release: Polls, new tools for managing followers, new frontpage design, new admin features, Keybase integration, and more
Eugen Rochko
Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder