MastodonWe’re excited to announce that Mastodon 4.4 is now generally available as an upgrade for all Mastodon servers. The update brings improvements to profiles, navigation, list management, media controls, server moderation notes, and more.
Mastodon 4.4 also contains the first part of our Quote Post implementation - display of incoming Quote Posts. Full support (including creation) will be part of the next version: Mastodon 4.5, coming later this year. We’re already hard at work on the next set of updates for that release.
We hope you’ll enjoy the enhancements in Mastodon 4.4, and we’re grateful for your support and feedback. We’re a small team, and we depend on your donations to continue making Mastodon better with features and updates. Please contribute to support our mission if you can.
KRISÚ クリス@Mastodon Thank you for your work 🙏
David
Expressiverse@Mastodon your most recently published accounts (for 2023) show a 65% increase in donations, exceeding half a millon Euros. That seems very healthy for a "small" team.
And yet there are thousands of admins running #mastodon server who personally subsidise to cover their basic running costs due to poor donations.
How about encouraging your followers to support their own host a little too?
woollypigs@Mastodon just chucked a few coins this way, so should you ;)
coso@Mastodon one thing, but are private chats end-to-end encrypted?
@cosothegreat no. We would suggest using a separate app that supports end-to-end encryption if that is something that you need.
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iamdtms@Mastodon Quote Posts FTW!
guenther@Mastodon Will it be possible to filter out quote posts from the timeline?
Renaud Chaput
RandomMusickMayhem (ON HOLD)
>LEAKLIV:/ Alternative Media@Mastodon Appreciated 🙏👍
Emil Jacobs - Collectifission@Mastodon So what does 'incoming quote posts' exactly mean? If I quote in the Ivory client, I'm not seeing the quote in the webinterface.
@collectifission Ivory's quotes are not proper quote posts, but more of a rich preview when a post contains "RE: <status url>”
We are implementing quote posts with full control for the user (choose if you want to be quoted, retract a previous quote…) which requires proper server and client support (see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/)
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We are implementing quote posts with full control for the user (choose if you want to be quoted, retract a previous quote…) which requires proper server and client support (see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/)
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@renchap Thanks for the clarification!
Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋@Mastodon Is it now possible to somehow create quote posts through the REST API, if I have some app or tool of my own using the API, or does it only work for now when the quote is coming from another (non-Mastodon) instance over ActivityPub?
Arataka
Linh Pham@Mastodon Huge kudos to everyone who has contributed to the project and towards v4.4! I've been really happy with 4.4.0 rc1 thus far and will be upgrading my instance later today.
@Mastodon Oops, meant beta and rc. Edited post.
Erik Uden 🚩@Mastodon this is so incredible 😍
Clot@Mastodon Very excitedd
Stefan Bohacek
Mastodon MigrationExcellent job @MastodonEngineering !
Have been really impressed by the upgrades and the direction you are taking this fantastic platform. Keep up the good work!
Linux Is Best
House Panther 
A lot of performance improvements and security patches applied to this build. It is why I tagged my admin @xrobau <-- 👋
Morten Hilker-Skaaning
LR@morten_skaaning @Mastodon hm? what are you replying to?
Leonard Ritter (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 audio my fast music entry for #revision2025
@Mastodon cool. hope this comes to glitched at some point. what a version number. 4.4? Hehahahaha.
soaproot
Fell@Mastodon Now those are some nice written patch notes!
ikuturso 🇪🇺@Mastodon at least the first part of #fetchallreplies is included as well, right?
Sexybiggetje🐖
6ff334e@Mastodon thanks again for your work, updating my instance from 4.3.9 went smooth as far as I can see now.
akiran_n@Mastodon I update to 4.3.9 this morning 😂.
Rolle Laukkarinen@Mastodon I want to sincerely thank you and the whole team for making my life better through Mastodon. You all do so much good in the world. After X and the state of social media, this is very much still needed. Thank you for providing me my happy place.
Sérgio Machado@Mastodon that's very nice, isn't it
Waidler 
@Mastodon
Would be nice to get any explanations of the different post-install or depreciation messages of some update steps. I ignored all of them and it went well. However - in some cases additional steps might be required as per the hints after completion of a specific update step.
Regardless of this, many thanks for the great work to the Mastodon team.
Would be nice to get any explanations of the different post-install or depreciation messages of some update steps. I ignored all of them and it went well. However - in some cases additional steps might be required as per the hints after completion of a specific update step.
Regardless of this, many thanks for the great work to the Mastodon team.
�@Mastodon offtopic: is it possible to use the android app without a web browser? because the login looks like it doesnt work
Aleksei 🇪🇪@Mastodon speaking of the video player, is it possible to disable this sticky video player (or whatever it's called)?
Gustavo@Mastodon ¡Genial! ¡Gracias!
XxPppp678Xx@Mastodon mastodon.social should do this update
@XxPppp678Xx Mastodon.social runs the very latest code, and those changes have already been applied there over time as they were implemented.
kopio"Don’t want someone to follow you anymore? You don’t have to block them, simply tap “Remove follower” in the dropdown menu on their profile."
Nice.
Democracy Dies in Dumbass@Mastodon Whelp, 4.4 broke my shit, had to restore from backup. Will try again tomorrow, too tired tonight. :)
A docker App for Truenas scale would be HUGE, and I'm too much of an idiot to put one together myself I suspect. ;-)