Rolle LaukkarinenI've been pretty tired, stressed out, and overwhelmed lately, so there haven't been strictly bi-weekly upgrades to the server as I planned. We're still on v4.6.0-alpha.6+2026-04-05, and I don't have the energy to do the upgrades today. Maybe next week.
Der noble ZothecaIt's just nice to stop by this instance again... it's still the instance close to our hearts. @rolle #MementoMoriSocial
Veera LaukkarinenMitä on tämä uusi Mastodon profiilisivu? Näin OG version ja se oli niin kammottava ja epäkäytännöllinen 😱
PS. Onneksi on MementomoriSocial. @rolle tekee tästä paljon kivemman ja käytännöllisemmän 🙏❤️
I've pushed a bunch of quick hotfixes for the Mastodon Bird UI nightly for v4.6.0-alpha.6-2024-04-06, with the CHANGELOG updated here (see things under [UNRELEASED]):
https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui/blob/nightly/CHANGELOG.md
The new profile redesign is causing a bit of trouble. I'm fixing things on the fly as soon as I or users notice any issues.
I also pushed some fixes for the ultra-accessible variant; some font sizes were still hardcoded. It's nicer to browse for my vision-impaired spouse.
#MementoMoriSocial #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #MastoAdmin #a11y #Accessibiilty #UI #BuildInPublic #Mastodon
Einfach mal wieeder ein Blick auf meine alte Instanz und geschaut, ob hier alles mit dem rechten zugeht 
We've successfully MEGA-upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.6+mementomods-2026-04-05, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.6 (nightly).
This update includes today's latest daily build with 163 new commits from upstream since mementomods-2026-03-21.
What's new in Mastodon core - These are the changes Mastodon Team have introduced us in the latest nightly version we are running:
✨️ New features
- Profile redesign is now live (feature flag removed) — new layout with "Follows you" badge, split fields, rearranged number fields, featured tab, account featured tags nudge, alt text on avatars/headers
- Collections are now fully federated — remote account support, new page design, compact buttons, topic suggestions, tag linked FeaturedCollection objects over ActivityPub
- Email subscriptions on profiles — visitors can subscribe to public posts via email with MX record validation
- Profile editing — new API with character counter, field inline messages, avatar/header description uploads, visual fixes
- Support for FEP-2c59 and multiple keypairs for remote accounts
- Media description length limit increased from 1500 to 10,000 characters for remote attachments
- Improved relative time display when post time is in the future
- Disable extraneous Devise strategies option via `DISABLE_DEVISE_TWO_STRATEGIES`
🔧 Fixes & improvements
- Fix signature verification when key ID is an `acct:` URI
- Fix refreshing keys from stale actors on signature verification error
- Fix regressions in notifications caused by translation wrapper element
- Fix jump when loading more media gallery items
- Fix being unable to disable sound for quote update notification
- Fix Webfinger endpoint not handling new AP ID scheme
- Improve resilience of `tootctl maintenance fix-duplicates` command
- Improve contrast for `text-warning` and `text-success` design tokens
📦 Dependency updates
- Rails 8.1.3, Vite 8.0.3, TypeScript 6, Yarn 4.13.0, Ruby version 4.0.2
- Drop support for Ruby 3.2
🐦⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.6 (nightly)
- Fix translate button color not matching link color
- Fix extra border-left showing up in mobile devices
- Fix focusable background color standing out too much for account name
- Fix install script for Mastodon 2026-03-21 `common.scss` removal
- Fully modularize `_base.scss` into 40+ focused module files
- Fix Browsersync CSS hot reload by stripping CSP headers from proxied responses
- Support new profile page structure
- Remove calendar icon for "Joined" field no longer in new profile
- Style new profile page components and fix profile button colors
- Update theme tokens with latest design system tokens (upstream PR #38387)
- Remove select hack fixed in upstream
- Fix install script for new profile subdirectories
🔧 mementomods fork fixes
- Restored role badge colors lost in the profile redesign (reported upstream: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/38567)
- Fixed search reference page: migrated from removed `injectIntl` to `useIntl` hook, removed non-functional search operators
Source code: https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon
As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts. 
If anything feels off, please let us know!
Role badge color from admin settings not applied after the profile redesign in v4.6.0-alpha.6 · Issue #38567 · mastodon/mastodon
Steps to reproduce the problem Go to Administration > Roles and edit a role Set a badge color for the role Assign the role to a user and make it highlighted Visit that user's profile page Expected ...
Just finished optimizing and checking things after being away from this machine in particular for a while. Our server stack could theoretically handle 5k more registered users and about 1500-2000 monthly active users before we'd need to start thinking about scaling up.
Right now, we have 889 users and around 410 monthly active ones and we're running at roughly 25-30% capacity. Plenty of space to grow.
We're federating with nearly 42000 other servers, which is actually the heaviest part of running an instance, not the local users. Every boost, reply, and follow across the fediverse adds work for our servers.
It was never my intention to grow this server this much or even have this many users, but now we have regular people, authors, political parties, organizations, YouTubers, and more. I'm still amazed about this. Yet I'm keeping a low profile because, even though we have our own admin team, at the end of the day this is still my hobby project organized by me and my wife.
That said, I've done my best to keep things as flexible as possible, and our finances are stable. I'm really glad my "hobby project" has brought so much joy to so many people.
If you know someone looking for a Mastodon home, we've got room 🏠
It's funny how some people say they joined because our instance is Finnish. It's true that I'm Finnish and our servers are located in Finland, but we don't promote ourselves as a Finnish instance, nor are we otherwise tied to Finland.
English is my second and quite dominant language, and half of my family tree is Australian. In short, all cultures and languages are welcome here.
Languages currently used on mementomori.social:
1. Finnish
2. English
3. French
4. Swedish
5. German
6. Korean
7. Dutch
8. Catalan
9. Japanese
We've successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.5+mementomods-2026-03-21, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4.
This update includes today's latest daily build with 269 new commits from upstream since mementomods-2026-02-21.
What's new in Mastodon core - These are the changes Mastodon Team have introduced us in the latest nightly version we are running:
✨️ New features
- Collections: Public collections on profiles, remote account support, share dialog, reporting, moderation tools, tag suggestions, and language selector (not active for us yet)
- Profile editing: New API, avatar/header image uploading with descriptions, featured tags editing, account fields grid layout (not active for us yet)
- New `exclude_direct` flag for account statuses API
- Split `invite_users` permission into `invite_bypass_approval` for finer control
- `max_note_length` and `max_display_name_length` now exposed in instance configuration API
- Accessibility improvements to sign-up flow, reset password and confirmation pages
- Lots of fixes, refactors, and dependency updates
🔮 Upcoming
- Profile redesign and Collections continue to be built incrementally upstream behind experimental flags, we'll enable them once Mastodon Bird UI support is ready
- FASP (Fediverse Auxiliary Service Providers) infrastructure continues to be developed
🐦⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 (nightly)
- Fix focusable background color standing out too much for account name
- Fix install script for Mastodon 2026-03-21 `common.scss` removal
Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 is still a work in progress in the nightly branch. It's not 100% ready, but it's stable with today's Mastodon alpha.5. Unfortunately a development is a bit stalled due to a lack of time personally.
Source code: https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon
As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts.
If anything feels off, please let us know!
Please note that our instance will undergo planned maintenance soon, which will cause some downtime. You can check the details at: https://status.mementomori.social/maintenance/851106
