Mastodon2d ago

Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. In our latest blog post, @imanijoy explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights ๐Ÿงต

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/

A Redesign for Profiles

Sharing the design thinking for the new look coming to profile pages.

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Show threadMastodon2d ago
A new Activity tab has a dropdown menu for filtering different views of information (posts, boosts, replies) so you can find the information you're interested in.
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We've reworked featured hashtags, pinned posts, and custom fields to make the most important details more easily discoverable, and make better use of vertical space.
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Profile editing is now a unified experience, with everything in a single view. You can also now add alt text for profile and cover photos.
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There's much more to discover! Read the blog post for more information, and let us know what you think.

These updates will start to appear on mastodon.social and other servers running nightly builds from today, and will be available to everyone in Mastodon 4.6, coming in a few weeks.

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I can't use mastodon as my primary social media yet because the ui and ux are still not Facebooky enough to entice my family and friends over from facebook.
Show threadBrendan Jones
@kayrah87 surely Mastodon is not and will never be a replacement for FB? Unless you're setting up a private server and all posts are private to that server. Or you post public on Facebook?
Mar 27 at 4:25pmWeb