Mostly to do with how posts are composed which was always cramped and weird in the past.
And no more mixing up normal posts with DMs.
Some nice improvements to Mastodon coming in 5.0
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/
Mostly to do with how posts are composed which was always cramped and weird in the past.
And no more mixing up normal posts with DMs.
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naught101@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
Neat. Mostly aesthetics, but I can seen how a lot of those will help users a tonne, and IRL make the whole thing a lot more polished
artyom@piefed.social · 2 pts · 2d
Strong focus on UI and terminology and markdown is still nowhere to be found 😮💨
catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 4h
I doubt they will ever add it at this point. Mastodon can display markdown on posts from Akkoma just fine so it must be that they don't want Masto users to have access to markdown at all. Fortunately, Fediverse is more than just Mastodon so you can join an Akkoma instance instead, or one of the forks of Mastodon.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 1 pts · 15h
no talk about improving integration with groups/communities or any other platforms at all :(
catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 4h
They are big so they don't care. If it was Threads that had some federation problems it would be a high priority task for the developer team to fix it. But Lemmy is too small for them to care about us.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 1 pts · 10m
They should care. They aren't really growing. And hashtags don't work well with federation, groups/communities are much better for that.
vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz · -1 pts · 2d
@rimu
Thing is though, small posts is what Mastodon is about, not massive missives. Any more than about 300 chars and I skip it anyway.
rimu@piefed.social · 2 pts · 2d
Perhaps some client apps don't do a great job of showing a small teaser when a post is long - I've had some negative pushback from Mastodon users when my Wordpress blog uses the ActivityPub plugin to share it's content onto Mastodon. They talk of needing to scroll lots to get past the post, which sounds like a badly made app to me.
artyom@piefed.social · 1 pts · 2d
This is a problem with the official Mastodon app, specifically. So I would redirect those users to Phanpy or similar, which automatically collapses long posts.