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panos :catodon: @panos@catodon.rocks
· 15h ago
Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe
There are such cool projects on the Fediverse. Honestly, I don't think there is any social network that can compete. We have microblogging, blogging, videos, audio, events, reviews for books, films and more, podcasts, image sharing, streaming, forums, link aggregators... But we have mostly been seeing just parts of all this ecosystem, because each project focuses in one or a few of these things. One of our aspirations for Catodon is to bring as many of these features and services together, to the extent that we can keep the platform coherent. We already support many of those, but we still have work to do. We will show you fedi like you haven't experienced it before - at least with only one account! #catodon #fediverse
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panos :catodon: @panos@catodon.rocks
· 16h ago
Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe
Alright, we're looking for beta testers for Catodon's mobile app, as Google demands 12 testers having it installed (and ideally using it) for at least 14 days. The app is nothing exciting tbh, it's a glorified TWA, which allows you to switch server. However, it might be interesting for some people because you don't need a Catodon account: If you select catodon.rocks, you can also use it with your Mastodon or Misskey or Sharkey account (basically with anything that uses the Mastodon, Misskey or ActivityPub API), as an app. You can get a taste of Catodon's UX this way, even though you'll be missing a lot of features. Or of course you can make a Catodon account if you don't have one yet. So, if anyone is interested in installing our app and keeping it for at least a couple of weeks, please send me the email that you're logged into Google Play with, and I'll send you the links. Thank you, and please repost this, so that we can find our testing group! #catodon #mastodon #testing #misskey #sharkey
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panos :catodon: @panos@catodon.rocks
· 19h ago
Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe
And now that the RC for Catodon 26.11.0 "Nyan Cat" is out, we can continue development, towards 26.12.0 "Grumpy Cat". First feature I'm working on: a Library, a feature close to (and compatible with) Bookwyrm's Shelves, but not just for books: You will be able to add reviews for films, music albums etc, since Catodon Libraries will also be compatible with NeoDB! #catodon #bookwyrm #neodb
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panos :catodon: @panos@catodon.rocks
· 18h ago
Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe
I really like one of the features I squeezed in just before the RC, it's a small thing that I've wanted to do it for a long time: Something borrowed from Facebook, where I found it super convenient. When you have no unread notifications and new ones come while you\re online, if you hover over the popup cards, they are marked as read. So if you do the hover (as an "I saw this") for all incoming notifications, you never have to visit the notifications page or click the "Mark all as read" button mid-session - your unread notifications count will stay at zero, without clicking anywhere. #catodon
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Catodon @catodon@catodon.rocks
· 21h ago
Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe
Catodon 26.11.0-rc.1 is out! First release candidate for 26.11.0 "Nyan Cat". Events. Federated events (FEP-8a8e) with invitations, RSVPs, calendar export and their own page, plus an Events tab in Search. Videos. New Videos page and timeline. Shorts feed that also takes Loops and portrait PeerTube videos, a popup player, Up next, and Add channel as a search. Blogs. Write in Markdown, mention people in a blog post, and offer the blog's posts by email. Forums. Discover forums through Catodon's Threadiverse Catalog, from Search > Forums, Explore > Forums and the sidebar. Moderation. Mass actions on up to 100 accounts, delete all posts, block an email address on delete, warnings with appeals, and reviewable trending hashtags. Email and terms. Notifications by email, filters for notifications you would rather not hear, and terms of service a server can write, date and version. Layout. Posts first, Accounts becomes Streams, 16 new themes, Ctrl+K command palette, and bookmark categories. Mastodon API. Sign-ups from apps, paging through lists, more notification kinds, and per-account server blocks. For admins. Warnings about critical updates and about the end of support of your release line; email and terms stay off until you turn them on. Migrations run on first start, so back up first. Full details with the stable release. ​:catodon:​ #catodon
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26.11.0-rc.1 - catodon/catodon

First release candidate for 26.11.0 "Nyan Cat". - **Events.** Federated events (FEP-8a8e) with invitations, RSVPs, calendar export and their own page, plus an **Events** tab in Search. - **Videos.** New Videos page and timeline. Shorts feed that also takes Loops and portrait PeerTube videos, ...

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panos :catodon: @panos@catodon.rocks
· 4d ago
Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe
One of the things that have me seriously worried about AI lately is how easy it gets for bots to make Fediverse accounts - they can bypass bot protection guards at registration, as they can act more and more like humans. A mass influx of spambots could seriously bring servers to their knees and make the network unusable. So we need stronger moderation tools! Our next release will not only have more moderation options per user, but you will be able to apply them to up to 100 accounts at once. I really hope fedi admins won't need to deal with something like that, but it's always better to be prepared to defend your community. #catodon #misskey #sharkey #fediverse #fediAdmin RE: https://catodon.rocks/notes/at1yhevtndm501k9
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@catodon@catodon.rocks
Improved moderation tools in the upcoming Catodon 26.11.0 "Nyan Cat" release Take a look at our enhanced moderation tools for Catodon admins - you can now also delete all posts by a user (plain Suspend just hides their posts locally, it doesn't federate a delete), and you can do mass moderation actions for up to 100 accounts at once! The RC for 26.11.0 "Nyan Cat" will be released in the next few days. ​:catodon:​ #catodon
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Catodon @catodon@catodon.rocks
· 4d ago
Improved moderation tools in the upcoming Catodon 26.11.0 "Nyan Cat" release Take a look at our enhanced moderation tools for Catodon admins - you can now also delete all posts by a user (plain Suspend just hides their posts locally, it doesn't federate a delete), and you can do mass moderation actions for up to 100 accounts at once! The RC for 26.11.0 "Nyan Cat" will be released in the next few days. ​:catodon:​ #catodon
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panos :catodon: @panos@catodon.rocks
· 6d ago
Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe
Blog post: Catodon's official website is just one more reason why.catodon.rocks Cross-posted from !catodon-talks@catodon.rocks A new website for Catodon, and more updates #catodon
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panos :catodon:
@panos@catodon.rocks
Blog post: Catodon's official website is just one more reason why.catodon.rocks A new website for Catodon, and more updates #catodon RE: https://catodon.rocks/notes/asyns7vzgasy08hf
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catodon.rocks

Catodon's official website is just one more reason why.catodon.rocks

Updates about our new website, the Threadiverse Catalog and the upcoming 26.11.0 "Nyan Cat" release

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panos :catodon: @panos@catodon.rocks
· 6d ago
Blog post: Catodon's official website is just one more reason why.catodon.rocks A new website for Catodon, and more updates #catodon RE: https://catodon.rocks/notes/asyns7vzgasy08hf
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Catodon
@catodon@catodon.rocks

Catodon's official website is just one more reason why.catodon.rocks

It's been a couple of months since the previous blog post and a LOT has happened! We released 26.10.0 "Bongo Cat", and in a few days we're releasing 26.11.0 "Nyan Cat". The pace at which we've been working since @AntoineD@kwak.cab joined the team is incredible. In less than two months we have implemented:

  • Federated events, compatible with Mobilizon, Gancio, Friendica, Hubzilla etc, but also to the rest of the fediverse - and any user on the Fediverse can "attend" or "deny" going to a Catodon event, using DMs! Even if Mastodon and other platforms don't support this feature (yet, hopefully), their users can still interact with our events.

  • You can now "watch" posts and threads for replies - bringing back a much loved Misskey 12 (and Firefish) feature, but with some changes: First, it notifies only for replies. The old Misskey feature also sent notifications for things like reactions, which could flood your notifications easily. And second, you can now watch a whole thread, and get notifications for all replies, no matter how "deep" in the conversation they are! "Watch post" notifies only for direct replies.

  • Forum discovery: We created the Threadiverse Catalog, where you can browse through (currently) twenty-three thousand forums/communities, across eight Fediverse platforms that support ActivityPub groups. Anyone can use it, but Catodon users can call it directly through the in-app search. This way, they are no longer restricted by which forums their server has interacted with.

  • Added cross-posting in forums, a gap in the initial implementation.

  • Following whole Mobilizon and PeerTube servers. Relays now accept a Mobilizon or PeerTube server and follow its instance actor, so a small server can carry a whole video or events server without individual follows.

  • You can now block servers - another popular feature that upstream lacks.

  • A dedicated Videos view and timeline - watch and browse PeerTube, YouTube and Owncast videos from Catodon. Short form videos, including Loops, are under active development and will be merged before 26.11.0-rc.1.

  • Trending links in Explore.

  • Post languages, including automatic detection, both for incoming and outgoing posts. Timelines can also be filtered by language

  • You can now unfold a thread's previous posts in timelines, without having to open the post. You can also set how many levels of parent posts will be visible by default for replies.

  • OpenID Connect single sign-on.

  • Custom widgets: Admins can publish sandboxed HTML/CSS/JS widgets and a default widget layout, with consent before third-party content loads, live updates when a widget changes, and a safe_mode=no_widgets escape hatch.

  • Automated settings for admins, depending on whether their server is for a community, for a few friends or just for them.

  • A rewritten tutorial, to show Catodon's capabilities, and the "Your server" setup wizard, where users can choose between a full, a minimal or a custom setup for timelines and the navigation bar, during sign up or later. Since we are gradually introducing more features, we felt that a minimal setup option would help to not overwhelm new users.

  • Push notifications for Mastodon apps, and much wider Mastodon API support.

  • Support for the official ActivityPub C2S API! So now Catodon supports a third API, after Misskey and Mastodon.

  • A webhook overhaul. HMAC-signed deliveries, a 30-entry delivery log with "Send again", automatic disabling of dead receivers, a notification event for every notification, post filtering by visibility and origin, and system-webhook events for moderation actions and held sign-ups.

  • Alt names for emojis, which means you can now rename custom emoji without breaking past posts.

And these are honestly just some of the features we worked on. The changelog on our website shows well over 100 changes or additions just from Bongo Cat to Nyan Cat! But what matters just as much is that every feature reinforces the others - the whole experience is coherent and greater than the sum of its parts.

So that's more or less what's been happening with Catodon - we are going full throttle, we are creating our dream fediverse platform and see it shaping up day by day, and we want to focus on interoperability and supporting useful features from more Fediverse platforms - a lot of cool things are planned, we're not even half done!

Hopefully we have shown that we are serious about this until now - if not, the future will show it. We do not intend for this to be another Misskey fork that is abandoned after a couple of years. We're in it for the long run.

I'm realizing that this blog post was supposed to be about our just-launched website, why.catodon.rocks, and I have talked about anything except that. But to be honest I don't have much to say about it, I think it's very easy to use, looks like Catodon, and it speaks for itself. Antoine built it, go check it out, it's lovely.

Will try to write another blog post in the next couple of months - if I find the time, as we're literally working on this all day on most days! But we love it, and we think that it's worth it. The Fediverse is precious, and it deserves our best.

Meow until the next time!

Panos, for Catodon

#catodon #bongocat #nyancat

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Catodon @catodon@catodon.rocks
· 6d ago

Catodon's official website is just one more reason why.catodon.rocks

It's been a couple of months since the previous blog post and a LOT has happened! We released 26.10.0 "Bongo Cat", and in a few days we're releasing 26.11.0 "Nyan Cat". The pace at which we've been working since @AntoineD@kwak.cab joined the team is incredible. In less than two months we have implemented:

  • Federated events, compatible with Mobilizon, Gancio, Friendica, Hubzilla etc, but also to the rest of the fediverse - and any user on the Fediverse can "attend" or "deny" going to a Catodon event, using DMs! Even if Mastodon and other platforms don't support this feature (yet, hopefully), their users can still interact with our events.

  • You can now "watch" posts and threads for replies - bringing back a much loved Misskey 12 (and Firefish) feature, but with some changes: First, it notifies only for replies. The old Misskey feature also sent notifications for things like reactions, which could flood your notifications easily. And second, you can now watch a whole thread, and get notifications for all replies, no matter how "deep" in the conversation they are! "Watch post" notifies only for direct replies.

  • Forum discovery: We created the Threadiverse Catalog, where you can browse through (currently) twenty-three thousand forums/communities, across eight Fediverse platforms that support ActivityPub groups. Anyone can use it, but Catodon users can call it directly through the in-app search. This way, they are no longer restricted by which forums their server has interacted with.

  • Added cross-posting in forums, a gap in the initial implementation.

  • Following whole Mobilizon and PeerTube servers. Relays now accept a Mobilizon or PeerTube server and follow its instance actor, so a small server can carry a whole video or events server without individual follows.

  • You can now block servers - another popular feature that upstream lacks.

  • A dedicated Videos view and timeline - watch and browse PeerTube, YouTube and Owncast videos from Catodon. Short form videos, including Loops, are under active development and will be merged before 26.11.0-rc.1.

  • Trending links in Explore.

  • Post languages, including automatic detection, both for incoming and outgoing posts. Timelines can also be filtered by language

  • You can now unfold a thread's previous posts in timelines, without having to open the post. You can also set how many levels of parent posts will be visible by default for replies.

  • OpenID Connect single sign-on.

  • Custom widgets: Admins can publish sandboxed HTML/CSS/JS widgets and a default widget layout, with consent before third-party content loads, live updates when a widget changes, and a safe_mode=no_widgets escape hatch.

  • Automated settings for admins, depending on whether their server is for a community, for a few friends or just for them.

  • A rewritten tutorial, to show Catodon's capabilities, and the "Your server" setup wizard, where users can choose between a full, a minimal or a custom setup for timelines and the navigation bar, during sign up or later. Since we are gradually introducing more features, we felt that a minimal setup option would help to not overwhelm new users.

  • Push notifications for Mastodon apps, and much wider Mastodon API support.

  • Support for the official ActivityPub C2S API! So now Catodon supports a third API, after Misskey and Mastodon.

  • A webhook overhaul. HMAC-signed deliveries, a 30-entry delivery log with "Send again", automatic disabling of dead receivers, a notification event for every notification, post filtering by visibility and origin, and system-webhook events for moderation actions and held sign-ups.

  • Alt names for emojis, which means you can now rename custom emoji without breaking past posts.

And these are honestly just some of the features we worked on. The changelog on our website shows well over 100 changes or additions just from Bongo Cat to Nyan Cat! But what matters just as much is that every feature reinforces the others - the whole experience is coherent and greater than the sum of its parts.

So that's more or less what's been happening with Catodon - we are going full throttle, we are creating our dream fediverse platform and see it shaping up day by day, and we want to focus on interoperability and supporting useful features from more Fediverse platforms - a lot of cool things are planned, we're not even half done!

Hopefully we have shown that we are serious about this until now - if not, the future will show it. We do not intend for this to be another Misskey fork that is abandoned after a couple of years. We're in it for the long run.

I'm realizing that this blog post was supposed to be about our just-launched website, why.catodon.rocks, and I have talked about anything except that. But to be honest I don't have much to say about it, I think it's very easy to use, looks like Catodon, and it speaks for itself. Antoine built it, go check it out, it's lovely.

Will try to write another blog post in the next couple of months - if I find the time, as we're literally working on this all day on most days! But we love it, and we think that it's worth it. The Fediverse is precious, and it deserves our best.

Meow until the next time!

Panos, for Catodon

#catodon #bongocat #nyancat

catalog.catodon.rocks

Search forums/communities · Threadiverse Catalog

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panos :catodon: @panos@catodon.rocks
· 1w ago
Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe
Just added a small feature in Catodon, which might not sound that important but it's a quality of life improvement that I think Sharkey and Misskey admins will appreciate: You can now set "Alt names" for custom emoji - other names that still work, even if they are not advertised as the specific emoji's name. This helps a lot when you want to rename or delete an emoji, but you know that past posts on your server will now look like ​:abandonedEmojiName:​. Now, when you rename a custom emoji, the old name is automatically added to its Alt names, so that any post that still has the old name works. Or, if you delete a custom emoji, you can add its name as an existing similar emoji's alt name. #catodon #misskey #sharkey
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panos :catodon: @panos@catodon.rocks
· 1w ago
Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe
Catodon blog URL and other questions Today, the URL of your standalone blog page in Catodon is using this structure: https://catodon.rocks/@catodon/blog , so /@user/blog. Would this be a reason for you to not host your blog on a Catodon server? Is a domain.com/customblogname URL better? Would this be good enough, or is a URL structured like customblogname.domain.com a prerequisite for your blog? In general, which are, for you, the things that the platform that hosts your blog must absolutely have, and which are your nice-to-haves? Any features that you haven't seen in any software, but you think are a good idea for a blogging platform? Thanks! #catodon #blog #blogs #blogging
Catodon's official blog
catodon.rocks

Catodon's official blog

Words from the Catodon team.

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panos :catodon: @panos@catodon.rocks
· 1w ago
Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe
We've seen quite a few foreign accounts signing up at electricrequiem.com lately, I suppose to try Catodon, since it's the biggest server showing up on FediDB. But it's a greek-speaking community server - please use catodon.rocks if you want to try Catodon (and, even better, set up your own server if you like it and if you know how to do it!) #catodon
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panos :catodon: @panos@catodon.rocks
· 2w ago
Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe
Catodon recently implemented Mobilizon/Gancio events, but users on Mastodon or other platforms see events as posts that they can't interract with. This makes events on fedi far less useful. We're gonna change that - we'll create an events.bot account that users from other platforms will be able to send a DM to, and respond to an event (Attend/Deny) via the bot. This way, anyone on fedi will be able to attend an event originally published in Catodon. #catodon #mobilizon #gancio
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panos :catodon: @panos@catodon.rocks
· 1mo ago
Introducing the Threadiverse Catalog Cross-posted from !fediverse@piefed.social I'm the maintainer of Catodon, which offers both microblogging and forums (Lemmy-compatible communities), and we noticed that discoverability is not the threadiverse's strongest point: Our server only showed forums/communities that it "knew" because someone from the server already followed them. In Reddit it's easy to see if there is a community for a subject you care about; on the Fediverse it's not that easy. So I looked at what indexes there are, and most were focused in Lemmy - lemmyverse.net has added MBin and PieFed explorers, but I was looking for something that covers more platforms, and is a unified directory, rather than per-platform only. Maybe there is something that I missed, but I didn't find what I was looking for: a directory for the threadiverse. So I decided to build it. The Threadiverse Catalog lists forums/communities from Catodon, Discourse, Friendica, Lemmy, Mbin, Mobilizon, NodeBB and PieFed. It hasn't been online for many days, so it hasn't indexed everything, but we already list over 20.000 forums/communities. If there are any bugs or other issues, please let me know. We built this primarily for Catodon, and on our latest release (26.10.0 "Bongo Cat") users have access to its results through the in-app Search and Explore features, but it's open for everyone to use. It's open source and written in Go. Other projects are also welcome to use it. Cheers =) #threadiverse #fediverse #catodon #discourse #friendica #lemmy #mbin #mobilizon #nodebb #piefed
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panos :catodon:
@panos@catodon.rocks
Introducing the Threadiverse Catalog I'm the maintainer of Catodon, which offers both microblogging and forums (Lemmy-compatible communities), and we noticed that discoverability is not the threadiverse's strongest point: Our server only showed forums/communities that it "knew" because someone from the server already followed them. In Reddit it's easy to see if there is a community for a subject you care about; on the Fediverse it's not that easy. So I looked at what indexes there are, and most were focused in Lemmy - lemmyverse.net has added MBin and PieFed explorers, but I was looking for something that covers more platforms, and is a unified directory, rather than per-platform only. Maybe there is something that I missed, but I didn't find what I was looking for: a directory for the threadiverse. So I decided to build it. The Threadiverse Catalog lists forums/communities from Catodon, Discourse, Friendica, Lemmy, Mbin, Mobilizon, NodeBB and PieFed. It hasn't been online for many days, so it hasn't indexed everything, but we already list over 20.000 forums/communities. If there are any bugs or other issues, please let me know. We built this primarily for Catodon, and on our latest release (26.10.0 "Bongo Cat") users have access to its results through the in-app Search and Explore features, but it's open for everyone to use. It's open source and written in Go. Other projects are also welcome to use it. Cheers =) #threadiverse #fediverse #catodon #discourse #friendica #lemmy #mbin #mobilizon #nodebb #piefed
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fedicat @fedicat@pc.cafe
· 3w ago
latest #fedicat build supports mastodon api compatibility added in #catodon 26.10: lists, featured (endorsed) accounts, filters, trending links, familiar followers, alt text for avatars/headers (although that last one is actually mastodon api compatibility with gotosocial)
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