Server owners can do more to manage and showcase their community. Mastodon 4.5 has settings to define the visibility of different feeds (timelines), and also the ability to set the default landing page to the local feed. There are also new tools for restricting problematic usernames, and improvements in the moderation interface.

The Fediverse feels more vibrant when conversations are buzzing! Mastodon 4.5 fetches replies from other servers to show you more complete conversation threads - another much-anticipated feature.

Mastodon 4.5 brings Quote Post authoring features to everyone. Note that you can manage whether or how your posts are quoted by others, both globally on the new Posting Defaults page, and individually on specific posts. You can also revoke the use of a post. We wrote about this in more detail a few weeks ago: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/

We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!) https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5

(#5i5mhvq) Hmm anyone got a contact detail for Andrew? @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club – The emails/contacts I have have all bounced 😭

(#tfdxx6q) @bender@twtxt.net Hmm anyone got a contact detail for Andrew? @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club – The emails/contacts I have have all bounced 😭

(#5i5mhvq) @aelaraji@aelaraji.com I’ll poke @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club

car dependency and car culture ruin Miami for me

that’s an hour to only travel 16 miles

Going to see Cory Doctorow’s book talk, but loathe having to drive an hour to get there

(#34cy36q) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Great writeup! It’s just missing a section on burning down the planet.

(#ikbmtja) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Ah, I see.

(#yicaifq) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Maybe, but still nice. 😊

(#34cy36q) @bender@twtxt.net Thanks for this illustration, it completely “misunderstood” everything I wrote and confidently spat out garbage. 👌

(#n6ery5a) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org There’s an auto-finish function:

https://movq.de/v/7a01b9471c/os2-autofinish.mp4

I just did it by hand because I found it satisfying. 😅

Not as cool as yesterday: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-11-05/

(#z2diwfa) For the innocent bystanders (because I know that I won’t change @bender@twtxt.net’s opinion):

curl -s gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-11/2025-11-05--my-current-reasons-against-ai.txt

(#vglpnxa) @bender@twtxt.net Hahaha, great, mission accomplished! :-D The cleanup took half an hour, that was the annoying part. But the immediate aftermath of this accident looked really funny, I thought about taking a photo for a second. However, in order to confine the damage quickly, I decided against it.

(#grtrc7a) @bender@twtxt.net Not sure, if we actually have a law like that. But I wish it was the case. The clamp doesn’t say anything like that, just that it is now cactus.

The glue takes three days to reach its final strength. Let’s see. I’m sceptical.

(#whmndfa) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, I certainly had better ones. :-D Despite I can already laugh at the hot chocolate spill, I’m still assimilating the clamp failure, though.

(#tfdxx6q) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, you have to manually move each card one by one. That’s annoying. Haha, I remember the old Windows Solitair animation. :-)

Grrrrr…eat, one of my Bessey spring clamps broke. Ripped the arm right in half. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just designed in Germany but actually made out of Chinesium. :-( I will attempt to glue it back together with two component adhesive tomorrow, but I don’t have high hopes.

(#njnwhva) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Klassiker!

(#z2diwfa) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh shit! :-( Time to switch companies. If you found something, please let me know. This hype train is derailing here as well.

thanks @lafe@tilde.club!

init to begin it

(#mjqmz5q) @zvava@twtxt.net Late happy birthday! :-)

Cool, your website indeed mostly works even in w3m and ELinks. Sending notifications in the about page is out of question, since it requires JS. Apart from that, this is very good, keep it up!

Not sure how I can get the deskop look and feel working in Firefox, but since I’m a tiling window manager user, I prefer linear webpages anyway. :-)

(#tusvonq) @arne@uplegger.eu Hmm, wird da wieder Krieg gespielt? :-(

Der einzige Spielzeugladen der Stadt wird zum Jahresende geschlossen. Das muss man sich mal vorstellen: Eine Stadt ohne Spielzeugladen. 😥

(#pwczntq) @bender@twtxt.net is macOS 26 running smoothly? I’ve heard some issues with memory for the first release (docker related IIRC)

(#43tf7cq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Kommt auf meine Leseliste. Ist ja eh bald Winter.

After taking most of the year off from role-playing, I’ve got 3 one-shots coming up in the next month, all of which need some tweaking before I can run them (as do my homebrew rules).

Plus there’s a “build a game” code challenge at work, a pair of media boxes I need to rebuild, a pair of dead machines I need to diagnose, and I’d like to (eventually) get my twtxt apps to a “releasable” state.

So many projects, so little (free) time…

Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-recognizing-ai-for-photos-for-some-preview-users

HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The Output Tag
https://denodell.com/blog/html-best-kept-secret-output-tag

Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass/

Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/10/ryanair-flight-landed-at-manchester-airport-with-six-minutes-of-fuel-left-flight-log-suggests

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison

Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘Chat Control’ bill
https://www.politico.eu/article/one-man-spam-campaign-ravages-eu-chat-control-bill-fight-chat-control/

A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Reddit Moderator
https://larslofgren.com/codesmith-reddit-reputation-attack/

We found a bug in Go’s ARM64 compiler
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-found-a-bug-in-gos-arm64-compiler/

Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-computer-use-model/

anyway sup friends i hosted an IRC server

whyyyyy is my discover page only showing 7 twts!!!

(#s2lah7a) This looks so huggable, it feels like a plushie! 🥰

After seeing so many resolutions, I think you’re only missing a matrioska version of it. 🪆

(#altkl2a) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, the format is just an idea of how it could work.

The order of SOURCE > POST does make more sense indeed.

(#cqzexoq) @prologic@twtxt.net thanks, I already follow @important_dev_news@n8n.andros.dev too.

BTW, the feed on https://feeds.twtxt.net/ seem down? It says it’s in maintenance.

(#cqzexoq) @prologic@twtxt.net Me neither, if there’s any important news others usually tell me anyway. 😌

While working on the Discoverability for my twtxt client (it runs client-side) I found out that Chrome doesn’t allow to set a custom user agent. 🙃

I thought it was a general thing for browsers, but it that was actually allowed in a newer specification, yet it’s still not implemented in Chrome, it does work in Firefox though.

(#s5wriqq) @zvava@twtxt.net I kinda fixed the issue by not stripping the timestamp at all.

Seems that more feeds work correctly this way. 🤔