@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?
@Odaeus qoto is running a forked version of mastodon with additional features not found in traditional mastodon. New features will be added as time goes on.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@Odaeus https://git.qoto.org/qoto/qoto/activity activity logs if that helps.
@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. 
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.
@Odaeus Yeah, his next 2 features he will be putting in is translation, and editing, soon.
@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.
@Odaeus I understand your stance. As is the case with Forks. For me, it is about the features. But hey, that's just me. The beauty of choice is incontrovertible 😀
@obi
That is correct, as a fork our versions dont track anymore.
@Odaeus