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Notes containing links to other notes (IE how Mastodon users might imitate quotes) are now rendered similarly to quotes.We have come full circle. Mastodon dragging their feet resulted in client-side hacks to mimic quote posts. Now other servers that have quote posts interpret the hack as a quote. Mastodon devs, you can just not bother with the implementation now, we got it covered, thanks for nothing.

RE: https://shonk.social/notes/a2fg9w09qjq5000e

quoting nevent1q…89l3

With the new year just around the corner, we've got one last Sharkey release for 2024!

- Flash player! You can now attach .swf files to notes and play them back in the browser, using nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqugh2m6ssm8cf6rq4rcedycclu0dde5c0lztcm0egfx5gc7wkd9ysqnphfp (nprofile…phfp), an Adobe Flash emulator.
- Scheduled notes, both through the web UI and through apps using the Mastodon API.
- Hostname contstraints for actors and activities are now slightly relaxed, restoring compatibility with Bridgy, an ActivityPub <-> AtProto bridge.
- Improved interoperability with other Fediverse software (Dislike activities are now handled, more types of "featured"/pinned activities are now allowed, activities interacting with other activities not known by the instance are no longer ignored).
- FriendlyCaptcha is now supported as a Captcha provider.
- You can now disable the RSS feed for your account.
- You can now disable the online status of your profile all together, rather than just making it always offline.
- Notes containing links to other notes (IE how Mastodon users might imitate quotes) are now rendered similarly to quotes.
- User profiles now show pinned notes by default when checking a profile, using the pinned notes tab.
- You can now configure the file permission bits used by locally-stored drive files via filePermissionBits.
- Poll edits are handled better.
- Profile edits are now only federated if the ActivityPub representation of their profile changes.
- Several improvements to error messages in logs.
- Enhanced ratelimiting logic.

Highlights of changes from Misskey:
- Users are now notified when their account is logged into from another device
- Users can now hide all their notes from logged-out users.
- Users can make past notes only visible to followers.
- If no administrators/moderators have logged in for a week, the instance will automatically switch to invite only.
- "Resolve report" and "forward report" are now separate actions.
- Animated MFM is now disabled if the browser is set to "reduced motion" mode

Possible surprises:
- If your timeline is jumping around a bit while scrolling, try going to "settings -> other -> experimental features -> enable render note skipping" and turn it off.
- During the 2024.9 release series, setting up allow-list federation may in fact have added those instances to the block list. Please double-check your allow-lists and block-lists.
- The sign-in flow for the web UI has changed (username and password are now input separately), which may break some bots or clients.
- The way themes are applied is slightly different now- previously, a theme setting accent became the CSS variable --accent, whereas now it becomes --MI_THEME-accent. Most users won't be affected by this, except those using custom CSS.

Special upgrade notes
- Instances setting CSPs via HTTP headers should add raw.esm.sh (for Flash playback) and cdn.jsdelivr.net (for FriendlyCaptcha) to their CSPs.
- A newer Node.js version is required- 22.11.0
- If you're not using Docker, you'll have to pnpm clean-all before pnpm install --frozen-lockfile, otherwise some modules will break.