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Catstodon
Introduction
This Mastodon fork is based on the glitch-soc Fork of Mastodon, with changes made to suit CatCatNya~. I intend to contribute some useful differences back to glitch-soc and vanilla Mastodon.
To install, take a look at glitch-soc.github.io/docs/. The instructions and features are the same, except for the differences outlined below.
Contributing guidelines are available here.
Note: Use the main branch only for forks. develop
branch may, at times,
be force-pushed to (mostly for undoing cherry-picking of vanilla commits when upstream adopts them).
I highly suggest only ever running the main
branch in production, as is done for CatCatNya~!
I also highly suggest not rebasing on this if you are maintaining a fork,
instead, use merge (fast-forward, if possible, with merge commit otherwise).
Differences
- Some files are adjusted specifically for the CatCatNya~ instance. Specifically, these:
- sounds/boop.mp3
- sounds/boop.ogg
You might want to revert these to the upstream files (or your own versions!) if you decide to use this fork for your own instance.
- The rate limits for authenticated users have been relaxed a bit.
- The API endpoint
/api/v1/custom_emojis
is no longer affected by AUTHORIZED_FETCH, allowing anyone to copy custom emojis. - Allow higher resolution images. (4096x4096 instead of the previous limit of 3840x2160)
- Allow posting polls with only one poll option (if
MIN_POLL_OPTIONS
is set to 1 on your instance). - Emoji reactions on statuses (with both Unicode and custom emojis, same as for announcements), a feature originally developed for Nyastodon. Ended up as a Catstodon-maintained patch after its initial two Pull Requests to glitch-soc, but was handed over to Essem's fork, Chuckya and is now pending its fourth attempt of merging into glitch-soc.
- Lifts the "only federate local favourites" restriction on favourites/likes and emoji reactions.
- Cherry-picks the activity filter branch from Sakurajima Mastodon.
- Adds the ability to disable the suspicious sign in detection entirely.
- Useful for situations where the instance may not have up-to-date IP information, such as when the period of IP address retention is set to a low value (see Previous differences now merged into vanilla Mastodon)
- Environment variable
MASTODON_USE_LIBVIPS
is true by default.- This is a minor change, but it requires all systems running Catstodon to run a recent libvips version (8.13+).
- Vanilla Mastodon intends to deprecate ImageMagick anyway, so sooner or later, this change will cease being one.
Previous differences now merged into glitch-soc
- Fixed incorrect upload size limit display when adding new a new custom emoji. (Pull request)
- Everything merged into vanilla Mastodon
Previous differences now merged into vanilla Mastodon
- The period of retention of IP addresses and sessions was made configurable. (Pull request)