MastodonWe’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!)
Mastodon 4.5 brings Quote Post authoring features to everyone. Note that you can manage whether or how your posts are quoted by others, both globally on the new Posting Defaults page, and individually on specific posts. You can also revoke the use of a post. We wrote about this in more detail a few weeks ago: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/
The Fediverse feels more vibrant when conversations are buzzing! Mastodon 4.5 fetches replies from other servers to show you more complete conversation threads - another much-anticipated feature.
Server owners can do more to manage and showcase their community. Mastodon 4.5 has settings to define the visibility of different feeds (timelines), and also the ability to set the default landing page to the local feed. There are also new tools for restricting problematic usernames, and improvements in the moderation interface.
Matěȷ@Mastodon What does that mean? I understand that emoji are like any other Unicode character, and they are displayed by fonts like any other character, so they do not need any special treatment.
StarkRG@matj1 Most fonts don't have their own emoji, so everything that can show emoji will have it's own versions of them. Apple emoji are different from Android emoji and they're both different from windows emoji.
@StarkRG Yes. Like with any other missing glyph, it is replaced by a glyph from a fallback font. That does not make emoji different from other characters like Chinese or cuneiform.
My point is that, when we can choose a font for emoji, we should be able to choose fonts for every other character, and, when we already can choose fonts for every other character, I see no reason to have a separate option for emoji if we already have a system for choosing fonts.