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Gallery posts, which is an image post with multiple images in it, compatible with Mastodon and Pixelfed. Check out this example from Mastodon.
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“Reposters” as a separate thing from “Bots” with the same Show and Hide options for filtering that bots have. Reposters are more targeted, with higher quality content than true bots and often have a human operator writing comments. However many people find this inauthentic so now they can be filtered out. More details
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/c/microblogs can show posts from people you’re following OR all posts.
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Recent hashtags shown on the home page sidebar.
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Support for receiving posts with jpegxl images.
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Communities can have a default hashtag for new posts - posters can edit or remove it if they want.
For admins:
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Option to manually approve posts by new accounts, to cut down on spam while having open registrations (no approval on the new account). This will let people dip their toes in without waiting.
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Easily contact other instance admins, see /admin/instances
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Vote manipulation detection tools for simple sockpuppets and complex coordinated voting networks. See /admin/voting
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Serial downvoter report showing who made lots of downvotes against a single person in a short time.
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Other bot detection tools - e.g. easily spot unnatural runs of very quick post creation.
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Display list of alts on user profiles to more easily investigate activity by alts.
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Filter emoji with keywords rather than importing absolutely everything - this will speed up the emoji reaction dialog.
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Identify instances likely to be used by spammers in future. See /admin/instances?filter=liability
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Microblog posts with no replies can be automatically deleted - set the MICROBLOG_CONTENT_RETENTION environment variable to how many months you want to keep them for.
To upgrade from 1.7.x
git pull
git checkout v1.8.x
Then,
./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh
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Lemmy just displays the first image and ignores the rest.
In a future version maybe we can insert the images into the post body, or make Lemmy link to the PF version of the post.
Copies PyLova features, does it worse.
Hmm. Obviously compatibility is tough, but I’d say the worst kind of fallback is the “I’m not seeing what other people are seeing, but I don’t know what I’m missing and there’s nothing to even indicate to be that I am missing anything” version…
Until the compatibility (or more obvious incompatibility) is written into the Lemmy server and my client, and then that’s deployed to my server, I worry that anytime I see something say something that doesn’t obviously line up with the photo, I’m going up wonder “are they misinterpreting this picture, or are they seeing a different picture?”
I feel like a better fallback, honestly, would just be a link that says “ALBUM” because if someone is assembling an image gallery, then only showing the first image and discarding the rest is probably never their intention. They picked multiple images for a reason.