#mementomorisocial

I've been pretty tired, stressed out, and overwhelmed lately, so there haven't been strictly bi-weekly upgrades to the server as I planned. We're still on v4.6.0-alpha.6+2026-04-05, and I don't have the energy to do the upgrades today. Maybe next week. #MementomoriSocial

It's just nice to stop by this instance again... it's still the instance close to our hearts. @rolle@mementomori.social #MementoMoriSocial

We’ve successfully MEGA-upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.6+mementomods-2026-04-05, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.6 (nightly).

This update includes today’s latest daily build with 163 new commits from upstream since mementomods-2026-03-21.

What’s new in Mastodon core - These are the changes Mastodon Team have introduced us in the latest nightly version we are running:

✨️ New features

• Profile redesign is now live (feature flag removed) — new layout with “Follows you” badge, split fields, rearranged number fields, featured tab, account featured tags nudge, alt text on avatars/headers
• Collections are now fully federated — remote account support, new page design, compact buttons, topic suggestions, tag linked FeaturedCollection objects over ActivityPub
• Email subscriptions on profiles — visitors can subscribe to public posts via email with MX record validation
• Profile editing — new API with character counter, field inline messages, avatar/header description uploads, visual fixes
• Support for FEP-2c59 and multiple keypairs for remote accounts
• Media description length limit increased from 1500 to 10,000 characters for remote attachments
• Improved relative time display when post time is in the future
• Disable extraneous Devise strategies option via DISABLE_DEVISE_TWO_STRATEGIES

🔧 Fixes & improvements

• Fix signature verification when key ID is an acct: URI
• Fix refreshing keys from stale actors on signature verification error
• Fix regressions in notifications caused by translation wrapper element
• Fix jump when loading more media gallery items
• Fix being unable to disable sound for quote update notification
• Fix Webfinger endpoint not handling new AP ID scheme
• Improve resilience of tootctl maintenance fix-duplicates command
• Improve contrast for text-warning and text-success design tokens

📦 Dependency updates

• Rails 8.1.3, Vite 8.0.3, TypeScript 6, Yarn 4.13.0, Ruby version 4.0.2
• Drop support for Ruby 3.2

🐦‍⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.6 (nightly)

• Fix translate button color not matching link color
• Fix extra border-left showing up in mobile devices
• Fix focusable background color standing out too much for account name
• Fix install script for Mastodon 2026-03-21 common.scss removal
• Fully modularize _base.scss into 40+ focused module files
• Fix Browsersync CSS hot reload by stripping CSP headers from proxied responses
• Support new profile page structure
• Remove calendar icon for “Joined” field no longer in new profile
• Style new profile page components and fix profile button colors
• Update theme tokens with latest design system tokens (upstream PR #38387)
• Remove select hack fixed in upstream
• Fix install script for new profile subdirectories

🔧 mementomods fork fixes

• Restored role badge colors lost in the profile redesign (reported upstream: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/38567)
• Fixed search reference page: migrated from removed injectIntl to useIntl hook, removed non-functional search operators

Source code: https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon

As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts.

If anything feels off, please let us know!

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Just finished optimizing and checking things after being away from this machine in particular for a while. Our server stack could theoretically handle 5k more registered users and about 1500-2000 monthly active users before we'd need to start thinking about scaling up. Right now, we have 889 users and around 410 monthly active ones and we're running at roughly 25-30% capacity. Plenty of space to grow. We're federating with nearly 42000 other servers, which is actually the heaviest part of running an instance, not the local users. Every boost, reply, and follow across the fediverse adds work for our servers. It was never my intention to grow this server this much or even have this many users, but now we have regular people, authors, political parties, organizations, YouTubers, and more. I'm still amazed about this. Yet I'm keeping a low profile because, even though we have our own admin team, at the end of the day this is still my hobby project organized by me and my wife. That said, I've done my best to keep things as flexible as possible, and our finances are stable. I'm really glad my "hobby project" has brought so much joy to so many people. If you know someone looking for a Mastodon home, we've got room 🏠 #MementoMoriSocial #MastoAdmin

It’s funny how some people say they joined because our instance is Finnish. It’s true that I’m Finnish and our servers are located in Finland, but we don’t promote ourselves as a Finnish instance, nor are we otherwise tied to Finland.

English is my second and quite dominant language, and half of my family tree is Australian. In short, all cultures and languages are welcome here.

Languages currently used on mementomori.social:

1. Finnish
2. English
3. French
4. Swedish
5. German
6. Korean
7. Dutch
8. Catalan

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Kiireinen aamu siivota spämmibotit pois mementomorista #MementomoriSocial #MastodonFi

Server updates done. Just the usual package and kernel updates, nothing out of the ordinary. Sorry for the brief glitch, in case anyone noticed it. #MastoAdmin #MementomoriSocial

We’ve successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.4+mementomods-2026-02-21, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4.

This update includes today’s latest daily build with 121 new commits from upstream since mementomods-2026-02-08.

What’s new in Mastodon core - These are the changes Mastodon Team have introduced us in the latest nightly version we are running:

✨ New features

• Theme system overhaul. This won’t affect us and is currently a bit incomplete, because we do not utilize this new color-scheme feature in our themes, yet.
• Lots of fixes and underlying changes

🔮 Upcoming

• Profile redesign and Collections are being built incrementally upstream behind experimental flags, we’ll enable them once Mastodon Bird UI support is ready
• FASP (Fediverse Auxiliary Service Providers) infrastructure continues to be developed

🐦‍⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 (nightly)

• Fix translate button color not matching link color
• Fix extra border-left showing up in mobile devices
• Updated install script for new theme infrastructure (idempotent, handles stale theme cleanup)

Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 is still a work in progress in the nightly branch. It’s not 100% ready, but it’s stable with today’s Mastodon alpha.4.

Source code: https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon

As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts.

If anything feels off, please let us know!

#MementomoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

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