This is odd. Due to my timeline being an absolute firehose, I changed my settings to only show English-language posts, then did a full page refresh "just in case" to get the setting to stick.

Today I've seen at least one post in my timeline which was (a) not boosted by anyone, much less by someone I follow, (b) not posted by someone I follow, and (c) Mastodon recognized that it was not in English, because it offered me the translate option/link.

Mastodon bug?

#Mastodon #bug #MastodonBug #translation #settings #preferences #language #filter

I'd make this a poll, but polls can't include images.

Firefox. I have clicked "ALT" on a post image and the pop-up alt-text window contains more text than will fit. I have hovered the mouse over the empty lower section of the scroll bar (you can see that it is fully expanded; I have indicated the mouse cursor with a "+").

What will happen when I click the lower section of the scroll bar?

1. Window scrolls and stays open.

2. Window scrolls but instantly closes.

#mastodonbug

Problem with Mastodon((#)bug), it does not support Turkish letters in regards to making the hashtag space at the end nice and tidy.

I had to change (#)WikidataBarışUşaklı to (#)WikidataBarisUsakli

Reproducibility:

1️⃣ On version v4.5.0-nightly.2025-07-30 use the hashtag (#)WikidataBarışUşaklı with other hashtags ie. (#)Example.
2️⃣ The hashtags will not display in the "nice and tidy" format...

I should take some screenshots I think. Took 2! Attaching...

Attached!

#Mastodon #MastodonBug #bug

There is a big fucking bug in Mastodon's moderation features.

When I as a moderator suspend a remote account...

Expected behavior: The account can no longer be found or interacted with on our server and the account can't find or interact with accounts on our server.

Actual behavior: the account can still be found but is empty. there is a notice that the account is suspended and there is even still a follow button - it just doesn't do anything.
And the account can still see everything from our instance and interact with our posts. 🤯 Our users just won't reciprocate the interaction, because the reply won't appear here.
But if someone else replies to a reply from the suspended account we'll see that reply, but won't know what original post it belongs to.

Is this a new bug with Mastodon 4.3 or has it always been like that?
I've been moderating for 5 years now and this is new to me.

I'm not going to create an account on Microsoft™️ Github to officially file this bug report, but can someone tell me if it's already reported and what's the status? Thanks.

Additional ideal expected behavior: Previous replies to any of our posts by the suspended account won't be seen by anyone anywhere on the Fediverse - or at least not as replies to our posts, because our instance notifies/federates all other instances that these replies shouldn't be there.

#MastoMod #MastoAdmin #FediMod #FediAdmin #MastodonBug #moderation #Suspension