Teqed / meowstodon

The Fediverse server that meows at you - a fork of catstodon which is a fork of glitch-soc which is a fork of mastodon which is a...

Meowstodon

Introduction

This Mastodon fork is based on the Catstodon Fork which is based on the glitch-soc Fork of Mastodon, with changes made to suit shatteredsky.net.

To install, take a look at glitch-soc.github.io/docs/, substituting this repository where appropriate.

glitch-soc - Differences from mastodon/mastodon

The following is an excerpt from glitch-soc's documentation:

• Media improvements
  • Images inside the CW spoiler
  • fullwidth images
  • scaling options
• Formatted toots
• Highlighting of misleading links
• Hiding follower count
• An app settings modal
• Collapsible toots
• Colored toot visibility icons
• Local-only toots
• Threaded mode
• data-* attributes on statuses for custom CSS targeting
• Advanced theming via flavours+skins
• Doodle

Catstodon - Differences from glitch-soc

• Emoji reactions on statuses (with both Unicode and custom emojis, same as for announcements).
• The web frontend emoji picker is a blobcat instead of the joy emoji.
• The rate limits for authenticated users have been relaxed a bit.
• The API endpoint /api/v1/custom_emojis is no longer affected by AUTHORIZED_FETCH, allowing anyone to copy custom emojis.
• Allow higher resolution images. (4096x4096 instead of the previous limit of 3840x2160)
• Allow posting polls with only one poll option (if MIN_POLL_OPTIONS is set to 1 on your instance).
• Added oatstodon flavour (by @[e-mail])
• Some sound files are adjusted:
  • sounds/boop.mp3
  • sounds/boop.ogg
• Emoji reactions on statuses (with both Unicode and custom emojis, same as for announcements), a feature originally developed for Nyastodon. Ended up as a Catstodon-maintained patch after its initial two Pull Requests to glitch-soc, but was handed over to Essem's fork, Chuckya and is now pending its fourth attempt of merging into glitch-soc.
• Lifts the "only federate local favourites" restriction on favourites/likes and emoji reactions.
• Cherry-picks the activity filter branch from Sakurajima Mastodon.
• Adds the ability to disable the suspicious sign in detection entirely.
  • Useful for situations where the instance may not have up-to-date IP information, such as when the period of IP address retention is set to a low value (see Previous differences now merged into vanilla Mastodon)
• Environment variable MASTODON_USE_LIBVIPS is true by default.
  • This is a minor change, but it requires all systems running Catstodon to run a recent libvips version (8.13+).
  • Vanilla Mastodon intends to deprecate ImageMagick anyway, so sooner or later, this change will cease being one.
• Allow dashes in emoji shortcodes
  • This is simply to allow custom emoji compat with other fedi software.
  • Original patch by hazycora: https://github.com/TheEssem/mastodon/commit/2dde7a25a47a23f827e2fd2d07f55438f9985181

Meowstodon - Differences from Catstodon

• Emojis enlarge on hover (thanks to @neatchee's glitch-soc fork)
• Expose more lines of text for collapsed posts (also from a @neatchee fork)
• Counters in the web interface have been modified to display count or ShortNumber instead of 1+.
• The queries for trending statuses have been changed -- instead of using recently_used_ids() a selection of recent statuses from the last week are chosen.
• When calculating scores for trends, set allowed = true for eligible statuses.
• Personal rel="me" headers added for link verification of alt profiles. Currently hardcoded but in the future this might be provided by environment variable -- change these if forking.

Previous differences now merged into glitch-soc

• Fixed incorrect upload size limit display when adding new a new custom emoji. (Pull request)
• Everything merged into vanilla Mastodon

Previous differences now merged into vanilla Mastodon

• The period of retention of IP addresses and sessions was made configurable. (Pull request)