Antoine TalyMar 4
Renaud Chaput

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.

Feb 23 at 12:40pmWeb
Show threadRenaud ChaputFeb 23

@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.

Mastodon Blog
Show threadBen Pate 🤘🏻Feb 23

I’m really excited about a lot of these developments. Kudos to Mastodon for continuing to push things forward.

I’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 applied” (if they really trust them) but with an audit log, or as suggestions, and the admin must confirm the action.
Show threadF4GRX SébastienFeb 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 cachés. 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 feature…
Blocklist Feed Support · Issue #28605 · 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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Show threadKevin RussellFeb 23

@renchap

Do hashtags in quote posts get searched in hashtag searches?

Are "hashtags in quote posts" still hashtags?

#mastodon #code #coders

Show threadFinchHaven sfbaFeb 23

@kevinrns

" I think there might be something up with your instance."

Hey you know, you're right

Admins here just moved and rebuilt the entire database yesterday

Thnx for reminding me

cc @renchap

Show threadmoopetFeb 23
@FinchHaven Works For Me™. The post was from 2 days ago so that's where it appears in the search for #GetFediHired on my profile. I think there might be something up with your instance.
Show threadFinchHaven sfbaFeb 23

@moopet

" I think there might be something up with your instance."

Hey you know, you're right

Admins here just moved and rebuilt the entire database yesterday

Thnx for reminding me

Show threadKevin RussellFeb 23

@FinchHaven @renchap

I clicked one of your hashtags, used the "browse other,". and resulting search showed no quote posts, UNLESS the hashtag was outside the quote too.

My guess is hashtags inside quote posts are NOT processed rhe same way

Show threadmarymessFeb 23
@renchap I would like to apply for your project manager position, or is that just part of the dev roles?
Show threadkechpajaFeb 24

@renchap Is this a paid position, or is there fine print at the end of the application form telling us it's pro bono?

/snark

Show threadikuturso 🇪🇺Feb 24
Beyond internal team roles, does the team actively think about how to encourage and empower third-party developers to contribute? This seems crucial for the success of FLOSS projects. From the outside, the Mastodon team can sometimes appear fairly insular and opaque in their plans beyond just high level overview.
Show threadTonanio 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 🇺🇦 🇵🇱Feb 24
@renchap Are you looking for someone that will implement mandatory 3 level tags? Because we desperately need them:
Area>Country/Region>Entity
This so we can clean our feed of undesired posts, e.g. I want to follow BBC but not on movies or football. And I have no way to do it without blocking the whole dictionary (e.g. blocking "Arsenal" will also filter out some news about a military infrastructure...).
It's sad.
Show threadmanglanesoFeb 25
@renchap Is the significant experience with Ruby on Rails a hard requirement? I have around 8 years of experience as a backend engineer in different stacks but I would love to work with you guys.
Show threadDon Clemente 🔜39C3 ☎️2470Mar 4
@renchap ping @nSonic RE: https://troet.cafe/@nSonic/116161240890179411
nSonic (@[email protected])

Versteht mich nicht falsch, ist alles knuffig hier. Aber das ist alles sowas von KAPUTT und UNBRAUCHBAR wenn man mehr möchte als „Dinge ins Netz husten“ oder mit der DIREKTEN PeerGroup zu interagieren. Ich tappe Hashtag an: finde meinen und einen(!) 7 Tage alten Beitrag. Dann einen viel älteren von mir. Ich SUCHE nach dem Begriff, finde meine und einen(!) anderen(!) Beitrag MIT DEM Hashtag der NICHT bei der hashtag Suche auftauchte. (1/2)

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