Instance features

Mementomori.social is not your yet another instance with defaults. It is packed with small, but groundbreaking modifications. This page lists all of them.

On top of the regular Mastodon features like per-post visibility, content warnings and real time feed, Mementomori.social has the following features.

Mastodon Bird UI

Mastodon Bird UI is something I've been designing since March, 2023. It's a new kind of modern Mastodon UI, inspired by Twitter UI in its good era. Yes, I know, the word bird and Twitter may be a turn-off for some, but I actually like what Twitter made to its UI in 2021. The changes after that are not that good, so I took the UI in 2021 as an inspiration and created this:

The UI can be found on GitHub and its updates can be followed under hashtags #BirdUI and #MastodonBirdUI on Mastodon.

GitHub - ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui: 🐘🐦 Mastodon web UI, but strongly inspired by Twitter (when it was still good!)GitHub

Multiple Site themes

On Mementomori.social you get to choose from two major themes with variations:

Original Mastodon UI (Dark, Light and High contrast versions)
Mastodon Bird UI (Dark, Light, High contrast, Ultra accessible versions)

Ultra accessible theme

On our instance we have focused to accessibility with a special touch towards users with acromatopsia, vision impairment or age vision. Mastodon Bird UI (Ultra accessible) theme consists of features such as

Hashtags, links and mentions are in different colors
Contrast is even starker than in default High contrast themes, black background with white text
Font sizes are much larger throughout the site
The font size is even larger on mobile
All input boxes and modals have color to distinguish them from the background
All colors are tested with a contrast checker and with a real person so that they have sufficient contrast ratios

Screenshot of an ultra accessible theme with larger font sizes, better contrast and so forth

Bigger link preview cards

~~Default Mastodon has small link previews for URLs. I wanted to make them big and was inspired by~~ ~~this ongoing feature request~~. This is actually now in the Mastodon core, so our instance just follows the core card, but styles it to be more minimal.

Bigger Twitter-like link previews · mastodon/mastodon@e97868aGitHub

Bigger Twitter-like link previews in a screenshot

Top and bottom bar scroll out of the way

A subtle change, suggested by ikkeT. See the post presenting it. See JavaScript changes here and Style changes here.

Video presenting the scrolling animation

Allow max. 15 hashtags in the advanced interface columns

The default Mastodon Advanced interface allows 4 hashtags per column. We allow 15. There is a closed issue that is still an issue on 4.1.4.

Allow max 15 hashtags per view in advanced interface · mastodon/mastodon@d8026caGitHub

Show case of adding 6 example hashtags in the column

Lots of custom emojis

Mementomori.social has a lot of custom emojis. You can also request your own by sending a post to @rolle. Good emoji source: Slackmojis.

A GIF animation video scrolling all the wonderful emojis

Polls with 15 options and 150 character limit per option

Default Mastodon allows max. 4 options and 50 character limit per option. I have increased them so that posting polls is not too strict.

Increase poll options to 15 and character length to 150 · mastodon/mastodon@9f58a0dGitHub

Posted poll presented with more than 4 choices, compose form example with 12 choices and long answer.

Increased character limit to 10000 characters

Mastodon's default is 500. We have 10000. Never have to think about the lenght of your posts any more.

Increase character limit in posts from 500 to 10000 · mastodon/mastodon@9a0e13dGitHub

Show full comment, boost and fav amounts in posts instead of just "1+" or nothing

The Vanilla Mastodon doesn't show these amounts and will likely never show them natively as per this comment. However as an OCD person the metrics matter so on Mementomori.social you'll see full amount of comments. (Related issue on Mastodon)

Metrics show up on Explore, Bookmarks and Favourites from 31st of July, 2023. Comment count is accurate everywhere.

Please note, currently this is reversed to default due to unreliable method.

Add counters everywhere · mementomori-social/mastodon@aaec9c8GitHub

Show full comment count in posts instead of just "1+" · mastodon/mastodon@70c748bGitHub

Extended full-text post and account search

~~By default Mastodon searches only for your own posts and the ones you have answered to, if that. Search provided by~~ ~~Elasticsearch. On Mementomori.social you can search all posts the Mastodon instance is aware of, from the users who want to be found ("Include public posts in search results" enabled on settings).~~ This is actually now in the Mastodon core, so our instance just follows the core feature.