What do you wish for Mastodon to come true in 2026?
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The ability to select a threshold of engagement (number of boosts and/or faves) when turning on notifications for accounts, so I can be notified of their biggest posts without being overwhelmed by notifications if they post a lot
@mellifluousbox Improved UX for the web interface:
* Draft an entire thread before publishing
* Make "direct messages" feel more like on other platforms
* Allow to connect GIF services and add gif embed tool to toot editor.
* Markdown Formatting support in toot editor
1. Reply policies following example of quote policies
2. Reply moderation aka remove from replies
3. Account transfer incl content move
4. Institutions adopting fedi, whether via Mastodon or any other software
5. Mastodon.social moderating scammers and spammers
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I would like to have a setting where you can set your daily post limit. This would be good in terms of mental wellbeing and making sure I'm not flooding people's timelines.
@mellifluousbox Meeting one of the German speaking team at the Medientage Mitteldeutschland conference in Leipzig in April 😉
@mellifluousbox All European politicians should have official accounts on instances from the democratic institutions they serve. Could also be from their political parties.
See An Open Letter to All European Politicians and Leaders to Abandon X/Twitter
@everton137 current score = 3.2k signatures on the petition. Does it have any chances of making it to anybody in the "EU politicians" ?
@mellifluousbox su cumpleaños de una década, que no es poco-
@coloco what would you like to see in our celebration? 👀
@mellifluousbox A functioning protocol handler that an app (or web app in a browser) can subscribe to, that way I no longer need to enter my instance address on every single site so that interaction buttons work. This is a pain point that centralised social networks do not have by design.
@mellifluousbox The option of not even displaying posts whose media have no alt text
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Realise that it is part of something bigger and adapt
@mellifluousbox Required to be used for any official communication throughout the EU if the communication in question is otherwise published on any social media.
This, of course, is a lobbying effort rather than technological. It should be done under the umbrella of "European security" which is high on the agenda currently.
I realize due to differences in cultures and geographical regions, this is a bit of a tough issue but, I think with effort it is possible....
I want to see a more inclusive safe space for BIPOC --this means Mastodon needs to find and provide educational materials for admins and moderators so they learn about racial inequalities and how they are used in abusive ways, verbally weaponized, on social media platforms.
I am unsure if this is done now, but perhaps due to the aforementioned challenges perhaps speedy lines of communication between moderators/admin of instances of differing countries so they can check with each other about what is or isn't written expressions of racial biases--slurs etc...
@mellifluousbox Fix alt text so that it displays on mouseover once again instead of requiring multiple clicks as it now does.
@mellifluousbox post to list/circles would be very handy.
Show more than 4 pictures from services that allow posts with more picture attachments.
being able to add hashtags to lists
In my own opinion I think all instances should use #mastodonbirdui , but I know that is all personal preference.
Also better onboarding for sure
@mellifluousbox A standards based post migration solution would be nifty!
@box464 @mellifluousbox +1 to this! I’d love to see an implementation of the LOLA work on mastodon
@mellifluousbox I would like to see starter packs rolled out more evenly than quotes were. By which I mean, I hope everyone is eligible to be included in them.
The privacy setting for quotes rolled out before quotes arrived, but those of us on servers that have the quote settings but aren’t on 4.5 yet can’t be quoted.
I hope this is not repeated with Packs—I don’t think it will be a good dynamic to give that kind of exposure only to accounts on bleeding-edge servers.
@mellifluousbox better UI designing DM and other good features
easier onboarding. it still feels linux-nerdy at mastodon and i believe its a reason to not join
ai integration
integrated own-browser based news collection with topics to pick, improved chat like dm‘s, call function, video meet function, separate video & photo feeds, file-sharing a la we-transfer, improved global search, global follow option, payments, maps, traffic, public transportation, booking
more fancy ui design
make it a social hub for daily needs
@mellifluousbox no AI and yes backdated posts
Better management for media content. When scrolling through old images for example, after the first few recent images it takes _ages_ to load older images
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- improved ui (tangerine by default?)
- groups
- better/easier ux about private accounts (like private account=all posts private, no choice possible)
- circles (or mutuals only)
- more than 4 images on a post
- support longform post (blog articles) and markdown, events
- support rss? (would be great)
@mellifluousbox I wish more people from academia will migrate to Mastodon, specially from the #STS field
That mastodon remains a social media by all means.
@mellifluousbox Definitely more diversity, more so than simply more people on here.
