Competition is a beautiful thing. After what feels like months to years of stasis, the Mastodon team is launching a ton of great new features.

My personal favorite is that on the heels of Threads launching content search, Mastodon has one upped Threads by adding content search with search operators. πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

You can search for a post that has an embedded link, or a poll, or is from a specific user, or posted between specific dates. Nice work.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/09/mastodon-4.2/

Mastodon 4.2

In this massive update we've added search and removed friction. What's not to love?

Mastodon Blog

@carnage4life to be fair to the core dev team, they do a ton and 4.2 was a huge lift for them, they just don't talk about it enough.

I’ve been advocating for more, smaller, faster releases. 4.2 just cleared a lot of tech debt and hopefully laid the way for a lot of other cool stuff.

@carnage4life What will it take for companies to start moving tech support to Mastodon?