It's obviously an outrage that #ResPublicae is still on Mastodon v3.5.
Mastodon v4 was released in 2022 but we still don't know how to satisfy some needs of ours:
1) Disable the "explore" page which pushes potentially harmful trending posts.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20848
2) Avoid promoting federated accounts and posts from the front page, especially in the profile directory and explore page.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22620#issuecomment-1363670888
3) A local profile directory.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18078#issuecomment-2566237045
Another advantage of Mastodon v3.5 is digital preservation. Server-side rendering allows the #InternetArchive to successfully archive our pages with minimal effort, as seen in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250106121820/https://respublicae.eu/public
https://web.archive.org/web/20250106122009/https://respublicae.eu/@EU_Commission/113771861420849085
Mastodon v4 timelines are difficult to archive (while presenting no difficulties for abusive scrapers) so the wayback machine snapshots are hit and miss:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250106123628/https://mastodon.online/public/local
https://web.archive.org/web/20250106123841/https://mastodon.online/@jackmjenkins/113781434445879579
However things seem to have considerably improved in the past two years on this front as well, so that's not a reason to delay the upgrade further.
1) The “explore” page can be disabled entirely; the issue you're linking is about disabling it for logged-out users only
2) The front page can be `/about` if you uncheck “Use trends as the landing page”
3) The profile directory does exist and defaults to local. There is no way to disable the remote part, though
@ClearlyClaire Thank you so much!
1) Disabling it entirely would do, nice.
2) That helps. But I really don't want to show trending posts anywhere, whereas I'd like to show locally trending hashtags. I guess I can live without.
3) Thanks for confirming. Maybe I can just disable the remote part with some ugly hack (such as rejecting local=false requests in nginx).
@praetor by default, posts/authors need to be approved by moderators to trend; so you can enable trends but not approve any post/author, and allow hashtags as needed
@ClearlyClaire Right! So that would be enough, I would just not approve any posts/authors to be trending. Thank you.
Is #glitchsoc the way to go? Some instances seem to have solved some of those issues, but not all of them.