Renaud ChaputFeb 23

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116103936616513460

We are looking at growing the Mastodon team with two new backend developers. We are starting some ambitious projects and need help!

You need to have a significant experience with Ruby on Rails as this is our framework of choice, but we are also looking for experience in search algorithms, protocol specifications, Rust or Go and project management (this one to assist me in tracking everything we are working on).

If you are interested, please apply using the form provided in the job description.

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Show threadRenaud Chaput

@MastodonEngineering In this position, you will work on what we recently talked about in this blog post: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/our-technical-direction/

This includes implementing shared blocklists in Mastodon, new tools to help with moderation, a new FASP to reduce the storage costs for remote images and videos, getting Fediscovery to production and many other things, in addition to maintaining our open-source software.

Our technical direction

Sharing the thinking behind the technical and product plans for upcoming releases.

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Show threadBen Pate šŸ¤˜šŸ»Feb 23

Iā€™m really excited about a lot of these developments. Kudos to Mastodon for continuing to push things forward.

Iā€™m also really curious about shared blocklists in particular.. do you know how I can learn more about how Mastodon will be implementing this?

@renchap @MastodonEngineering

Show threadRenaud ChaputFeb 24
@benpate No plan is set in stone yet, but we are looking into being able to ingest "static" blocklist files (likely using an already used format somewhere) and would like to add FIRES support as well.
They complexity here is that we want admins to keep control over it, so having external blocklists either as "automatically appliedā€ (if they really trust them) but with an audit log, or as suggestions, and the admin must confirm the action.
Show threadF4GRX SƃĀ©bastienFeb 23

@renchap @MastodonEngineering I'm worried about the recent growth of mastodon. If you become too big, governments will notice and will ask you to enforce age verification like on the big commercial platforms.

Pour vivre heureux vivons cachƩs. On a pas besoin de devenir gros.

Show threadKevin Karhan Feb 24

@renchap @MastodonEngineering so will the filed issue be reopened?

  • Cuz devs insisted on closing it solely off vibes, without discussing the fact that even back then any decent software had this featureā€¦
Blocklist Feed Support Ā· Issue #28605 Ā· mastodon/mastodon

Pitch Besides manually adding a CSV file for blocks under /settings/imports , the option to automatically pull and update / overwrite blocklists would be greatly appreciated. This could also provid...

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