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  • Mastodon Bird UI
  • Multiple Site themes
  • Ultra accessible theme
  • Bigger link preview cards
  • Top and bottom bar scroll out of the way
  • Allow max. 15 hashtags in the advanced interface columns
  • Lots of custom emojis
  • Polls with 15 options and 150 character limit per option
  • Increased character limit to 10000 characters
  • Show full comment, boost and fav amounts in posts instead of just "1+" or nothing
  • Extended full-text post and account search
  • DeepL translations
  • 500 posts on the Explore tab
  • Snow during winter holidays
  1. Mementomori.social

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.

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Last updated 4 months ago

On top of the regular 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 . The changes after that are not that good, so I took the UI in 2021 as an inspiration and created this:

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)

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

Bigger link preview cards

Top and bottom bar scroll out of the way

Allow max. 15 hashtags in the advanced interface columns

Lots of custom 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.

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.

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

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

Extended full-text post and account search

DeepL translations

500 posts on the Explore tab

By default Mastodon shows 100 posts on the Explore tab. We show 500.

Snow during winter holidays

The UI can be found on and its updates can be followed under hashtags and on Mastodon.

(Dark, Light, High contrast, Ultra accessible versions)

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

A subtle change, suggested by . See presenting it. See and .

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

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

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

Metrics show up on Explore, Bookmarks and Favourites from . Comment count is accurate everywhere.

By default Mastodon searches only for your own posts and the ones you have answered to, if that. Search provided by . 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.

For posts other than your language (set in profile) a "Translate" link is shown, by pressing it you can see accurate translation provided by .

Let it snow! See .

GitHub
#BirdUI
#MastodonBirdUI
Mastodon Bird UI
this ongoing feature request
ikkeT
the post
JavaScript changes here
Style changes here
a closed issue
@rolle
Slackmojis
this comment
issue on Mastodon
31st of July, 2023
Elasticsearch
DeepL
❄️
update
Mastodon features
2021
GitHub - ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui: 🐘🐦 Mastodon web UI, but strongly inspired by Twitter.GitHub
Bigger Twitter-like link previews · mastodon/mastodon@e97868aGitHub
Allow max 15 hashtags per view in advanced interface · mastodon/mastodon@d8026caGitHub
Increase poll options to 15 and character length to 150 · mastodon/mastodon@9f58a0dGitHub
Increase character limit in posts from 500 to 10000 · mastodon/mastodon@9a0e13dGitHub
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Add counters everywhere · ronilaukkarinen/mastodon@aaec9c8GitHub
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Show full comment count in posts instead of just "1+" · mastodon/mastodon@70c748bGitHub
Extended post and account search by VyrCossont · Pull Request #8 · VyrCossont/mastodonGitHub
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Increase the batch size of trending posts to 500 · ronilaukkarinen/mastodon@62c3258GitHub
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Let it snow! ❄️ · ronilaukkarinen/mastodon@9bf1563GitHub
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Screenshot of Mastodon Bird UI with main feed active, Forbes posting Home Run Derby Odds: Here's How The Derby Works - And Who Has The Best Change of Winning
Screenshot of an ultra accessible theme with larger font sizes, better contrast and so forth
Bigger Twitter-like link previews in a screenshot
Video presenting the scrolling animation
Show case of adding 6 example hashtags in the column
A GIF animation video scrolling all the wonderful emojis
Posted poll presented with more than 4 choices, compose form example with 12 choices and long answer.
Metrics shown on home feed
Mastodon search screenshot for "politics", last found post 6min ago.
DeepL translate feature screenshot
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