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01 August 2025, 8:36pm UTC

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ibe.social updates

Created: 01 August 2025, 8:36pm UTC

I've applied a major update and two minor bug fix updates to ibe.social, our Sharkey instance. We are now on the latest release (31 July 2025 - 2025.4.4)

The full list of change is below -- many may not be relevant to your own use.

As ever, send me a message if you encounter any issues: @bumble@ibe.social

thanks
Susan 🐝

List of fixes

  • fix video uploads
  • more reliable notification grouping
  • quote-posts should federate better to Mastodon instances
  • faster "report abuse" endpoint
  • improved link verification in users' profiles
  • rate limit tweaks
  • fix freeze/unfreeze users
  • Migrating frontend preferences from pre-2025.4.2 should be more reliable now.
  • Parsing of incoming activities should be faster and use less memory.
  • Many database queries are now faster.
  • Blocking / silencing many instances will no longer slow down yours.
  • Caches should be more correct.
  • The "slow query" warning in the server logs can now be configured.
  • S3 errors during media uploads are now correctly reported to the frontend.
  • More consistent handling of note visibility and silenced instances / users.
  • The MFM parser now accepts markdown image links like ![text](url), and those images are fetched like attachments (they're not * yet rendered inline, though).
  • Many privacy / security fixes.
  • Improved notification grouping.
  • Suspending a user no longer severs their follows, so they'll be restored when the user is un-suspended.
  • On a note's detailed view, the "reactions" tab shows all the details of the first reaction group by default.
  • API endpoints emit a X-Robots-Tag: noindex header to deter indexing.
  • Videos will be optimized for streaming (not re-encoded, the metadata will just be modified slightly).
  • The admin view of a user's profile now shows their sign-up reason.
  • A few admin and moderation pages have been redesigned and should be more usable, especially on mobile.
  • Server logging has been improved, it should now provide more details with less noise.
  • Improved interoperability of quotes with Mastodon and other software that implements fep-e232 and/or fep-044f.
  • Show attributions (fediverse:creator) in link previews, and allow users to set their "attribution domains".
  • If enabled in the default policy, non-logged-in users can use translation features.
  • Some frontend pages now retry API calls when they hit a rate limit.
  • DeepLX works again.
  • Fixed receiving poll votes.
  • Users can again set their custom search engine for MFM's [search] feature.
  • "Show muted words" works the right way around.
  • Reworked the "trending polls" page.
  • Mfm now handles some punctuation inside bold/italic blocks.
  • Users mentioned in DMs they can't see are no longer sent notifications.
  • Optional WebSocket compression.
  • Hopefully a fix for the bug of your own reactions not being marked on posts.
  • Blocks and mutes should now be more effective.
  • When a note is muted, the reason is shown.
  • Fixed editing of scheduled posts.
  • Additional moderation logs.
  • Numerous fixes to the Mastodon API.
  • Users can now delete their own avatars.
  • Users are now warned when editing a poll, as it can lose all votes.
  • Libretranslate is now supported in addition to DeepL.
  • Showing linked notes as quotes is no longer automatic (you have to click a button), and it works in more cases.
  • Admins can change the level of "authorized fetch" via the frontend ("never", "always", and the new "essential" that serves a reduced amount of data to non-signed requests), and users can override this for their own data.
  • The notification dot on the favicon should work in more cases, and be more visible.
  • The "replies" collection is now exposed on all notes (we still don't fetch remote replies, but we enable other software to do so).
  • Improved compatibility with Lemmy and other ActivityPub implementations that Announce activities other than Note.
  • Numerous translation improvements (Daniel Ares for German, Ahri for Thai and Vietnamese).
  • Support for BunnyCDN in addition to S3-like object stores.
  • Sensitive/content-warned content is not served to the Discordbot (Discord uses the mastodon api to fetch notes for their previews, and they've decided to ignore CWs in favour of their own ||spoiler|| markers-- we don't agree with that decision).
  • Admins can now inject custom HTML in every page's (e.g. custom CSS).
  • Admin set MOTDs can now use HTML.
  • Links in profile fields are now verified for remote users.
  • Fixed signature verification for paginated AP requests.
  • Admins can now remove a role's color.
  • Admins can disable the use of the "proxy account" (although this will break some lists!).
  • Disabling the local timeline also disables the "featured" timeline on the logged-out front page.
  • Drive cleaner now shows all files, even those inside folders.
  • Delivery of activities has been re-ordered a bit, this should mitigate the infamous "Yaseen bug".
  • URL previews once again follow redirects.
  • Config file(s) can now be placed in any directory.
  • You can now configure the directory for drive files (when not using S3 or similar).
  • Improvements to the admin UI.
  • Improved "delete account" process with better reliability.
  • New role setting "can trend".
  • new role conditions "is from bubble instance", "is from instance X", "has more/fewer than X local/remote followers", "follows more/fewer than X local/remote accounts".
  • The config option allowPrivateNetworks can now specify ports for each network.
  • New "pattern checker" tool to test your word mutes.
  • The web frontend passes the user's authorization token in a header instead of the request body-- this should prevent accidentally leaking the token via logs.
  • Improved interoperability with Akkoma and Wafrn "invisible mentions"