Disappointed that upgrading to MacOS broke my Chrome apps generated by . I only created them a few weeks ago and found the window-based workflow much better than hunting around for tabs.

@obi 🤷 it's not about the features. It's the hundreds of fixes and small improvements that are going on in the mainline. Trying to maintain a fork in this way will become progressively harder the more it diverges.

@freemo @obi thanks. @obi sent me to the git repo. Assuming the 'main' branch is the production branch, it looks like very little from the mainline is incorporated. Honestly, I'm really sorry to say it, but it seems like a bad state to be in. :blobsad:
Once again, thanks for the work you put in to running this!

@obi thanks! That's what I was looking for but failed at finding. From the commit log I can see dependencies are automatically updated, which is great, but the core is rarely changed in comparison to the primary git repo. It looks like there's an occasional backport but I haven't cross-referenced. Of course, there's some work on the additional features that QOTO supports.

@obi I'm not assuming, I'm asking because this info does not appear to be publicly available beyond the version number reported by the server.

@obi that would be 2 years worth of changelogs to review... release 3.5.3 alone has 7 security fixes. The number of other fixes runs into hundreds in the last two years. It's completely standard practice to keep software up-to-date without focusing on whether an individual fix brings a visible benefit. Without regular updates it may not even be possible to incorporate any important fixes that come along.

@denis that looks superb! Just need a "send to book printing and binding service" button and you're $$$.

Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.

@obi I was thinking more about the many bug fixes and smaller improvements that have been made rather than feature parity. Security vulnerabilities in particular come to mind.

@freemo hi 👋, I'm one of the new users who is very thankful to you for running this server! I noticed Qoto is reportedly running an old 2020 version of Mastodon. Do you have any plans to upgrade? Is it an issue due to the customisations?

A groundbreaking decision taken by world govs yesterday gives explicit protection to 54 species of sharks, some of which aren't critically endangered today, but soon would be without help.

This is a win for the planet really, as sharks are a 420M year old keystone ocean species that have survived 4 mass extinction events. Oceans need them to persist. No sharks, no oceans, no us.

forbes.com/sites/melissacristi

So many people are having a bad first experience with Mastodon because they're using the official app which is lacking features, doesn't allow image uploads randomly, has random slowness, and doesn't give you easy access to the two most active feeds where you can find people (Local and Federated).

Please switch to Metatext, Tusky, or Tooot for a better mobile experience (or even use a browser).

Out of the >15k users that joined this week, over 11k are on the official apps.

There once was a spaceman called Musk,
Who hollowed the bird to a husk,
We migrated and flew,
To find friends old and new,
And now we are fans of the tusk 🦣

#VerseThursday

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