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Rant: The linking of accounts without the @ instance dot tld is not really working. Not on Mastodon & not on Pixelfed. If you are on instance A & link a user foo from instance A without instance, a user from instance B will only see user foo from instance B not A or a 404. Depending if user foo exists on B.
between #Pixelfed and #Mastodon the linking is sometimes not even working with the full account handle.
I really hope that gets fixed at some point.
#bug #fedibug #activitypub #mastodondevs

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Nov 6

because QTs are embedded cards i cannot, to this day, understand why @MastodonEngineering will not adopt the format.

a QT acts as a blockquote and citation.

when was the last time you had to ask permission from a source to quote them in an academic paper or newspaper article?

when was the last time you had to ask Donald Trump permission to quote every public jettison of his verborrhea?

so why exactly are #MastodonDevs subverting one of the most basic principles of freedom of the press? 🧵

New Slang Oct 10

@Mastodon & #MastodonDevs Mastodon iOS app is breaking into a ghosting mess. Yeah, I reported it elsewhere.

18.7.1 = timeline kerfuffle x3. Click on anything and everything disappears when you go back. Here's a vid.

I still love ya, for what it's worth. 🤓💙😘

And yeah, I also have an Android. And a Mac. And like four Linux computers. But I like the computerized, glowing, time-wasting Apple 🍏 in my pocket to work. XO 💋

#MastodonBugs #MastodonApp

ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ Oct 7

Here's a curious #Mastodon quirk.
It won't translate Spanish (see error message) but it's fine with other languages (e.g. Japanese).
#admin #MastodonAdmin #devs #MastodonDevs

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Aug 18, 2025

this is wild. i am indeed getting two profile pages for Kim.

if i go to her page directly via the web, her pinned post is from July. if i do it via the #android or logged-in #web apps, her pinned is from January.

so this looks like a caching conflict? is it my app’s cache?

i cannot get to any of Kim’s current posts via the android app. i have to go to her page via the webapp but UNLOGGED. if i login, i can’t get to any of her current posts.

@KimCrayton1 @timnitGebru

cc: #MastodonDevs

Jill ☁️Jul 24, 2025

Did Mastodon always use crowdin for its software translations or is this a new aproach?

@Mastodon
#mastodondevs

Jill ☁️Jun 17, 2025

Ohhh I am not sure if I like this new "See more replies on servername.social" message, cutting off the rest of the comments of a post or implying that there could be more even there are not and in order to find out having to leave the home server and jumping to another site (tab on desktop).

Also this way, if there are more comments it's not possible to interact further.

Why would you want that?

#Mastodon #MastodonDevs #🤔

Jill ☁️Jun 10, 2025

Dear devs,
could you kindly please get rid of the colour cast that appears automatically when in picture mode? This is just terrible for the eyes, makes absolutely no sense and destroys the experience and intent of all perfectly colour graded photographs and drawings. - Or maybe let us individually chose whether to turn it on or off? 💜

@Mastodon @MastodonEngineering #Mastodon #MastodonDevs #📷 #🖼️ #MastoArt #😭

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 21, 2025

DEAR #MastodonDevs

i know dealing with languages is such a mess because it’s tethered to localization ―which is, in my not-so-humble opinion, one of the biggest mistakes of software and web development.

YET! i would be forever grateful if there were a way to pick all the languages one writes in, so they are the only ones that appear in the globe.

this may not be possible without completely untethering languages from locale; but if you need this rubber-duckied, hit me up.

love,
liza

MTP Apr 2, 2025

#mastodondevs #mastodon what is wrong with this picture...
an entire column of dead unusable space because you need a whole column for the new toot text box instead of a floating "new toot" button that can then expand out on top 😒 on my 15" laptop this single useless column is taking up 25% of my screen!