@freemo
Maybe a more sane question would be:
What was the last vanilla Mastodon version that you pulled from?

@mur2501

@trinsec

We dont pull from whole versions, we pull in features piecemeal. There is code from v4 in QOTO for example, just not very much of it yet.

@mur2501

@freemo
Yes I know you don't pull from whole versions. But what was vanilla Mastodon version at when you pulled for the last time is a question that's still valid!

How can you have pieces of v4 code if you've not updated Qoto in a while and v4 is fairly recent?
And which feature(s) from v4 do we have then?

@mur2501

@trinsec

The version we originally forked from would be the version from 5 years ago.

We have made minor deploys that werent announced, small bug fixes here and there. Not sure how much of what I pulled in in v4 is in the RUNNING server, but I do know I pulled it into my local code base, I'd need to check what actually made it out. The last year has mostly been minor security fixes.

@mur2501

@freemo
Btw qoto is heavilly different from Masto or it's just minor changes like the max character limit?

@trinsec

@mur2501

The differences are fairly significant, something like 2 dozen or more additional features, then we try to pull in piece by piece updates and features from masto if they cover something we didnt already have.

@trinsec