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You heard it here first: Mastodon 5.0 (eta Fall 2026) will introduce major improvements to the core user experience. We're making Mastodon the most human-centred software on the #SocialWeb.

That’s where you come in.

Discovery Week 🗓️ 11-15 May 2026

Join our Head of Design @imanijoy for a jam-packed 5 day sprint inviting stakeholders from within and beyond Mastodon to weigh in on the future of the product.

See how you can get involved and contribute: https://app.hi.events/events/6360/mastodon-design-team

#socialweb

PetitPas

@PetitPas@eldritch.cafe · 59 minutes ago

@Mastodon @imanijoy juste a toot to support the great things you do, considering the bad comments flooding 💜

dada

@dada@diaspodon.fr · 46 minutes ago

@PetitPas @Mastodon @imanijoy

fedicat

@fedicat@pc.cafe · 2 hours ago

@Mastodon @imanijoy I find the second sentence off-putting, it sounds disparaging of all the non-Mastodon work out there. A bit too corporate marketing, like what you'd find on the Swift site.

Emelia 👸🏻

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io · 10 hours ago

@Mastodon @imanijoy would it be worth us jumping on a call with regards to moderation features? Felix has my details (hopefully 5.0 can also ship content labelling!)

Imani

@imanijoy@mastodon.social · 10 hours ago

@thisismissem I'm actually really hoping you can attend the fifth roundtable (https://app.hi.events/event/7472/roundtable-discussion-a-platform-with-flexible-protections-mastodon-discovery-week-2026). If you can't, we can work something else out!

5.0 probably won't be the one, but this research is for 5.1+ and I'm very interested in hearing your thoughts content labeling.

@Mastodon

Roundtable Discussion: A platform with flexible protections (Mastodon Discovery Week 2026) | Mastodon Design Team

Everyone deserves to feel safe online, but how can the Mastodon platform ensure that one person’s...

Emelia 👸🏻

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io · 9 hours ago

@imanijoy no tickets available, Felix has my email and I'm available on that day.

I need to finish writing the FEP for labels 😅 just been too busy with other work constantly this year.

Emelia 👸🏻

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io · 9 hours ago

@imanijoy draft + the GH issue on content labels: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/pull/116

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Bret Mogilefsky

@mogul@hachyderm.io · yesterday

@Mastodon @imanijoy Step one, start with Phanpy as a new baseline of usability and build up from there. 😉

Soskopp

@Soskopp@mastodon.online · yesterday

@Mastodon
What the fuck is this corporate lingo? "Stakeholders"? "Product"?!

Talk normally you dorks.

Gali

@galileo@mstdn.animexx.de · yesterday

@Soskopp @Mastodon they are talking normal. They obviously just have a different job than you?

Imani

@imanijoy@mastodon.social · 10 hours ago

@Soskopp where I'm from, 'stakeholder' is used in grassroots labor and civil rights organizing. Let's leave space for other experiences and ways of talking here.

https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/skills-and-lifelong-learning/treepedia-training-rural-economic-empowerment/launching-tree-programme/identifying-stakeholders-and-partners

@galileo @Mastodon