Heya, we did the thing!

GoToSocial v0.9.0 Spicy Sloth is out now 🌶️ 🔥

This release was fun to work on, and we hope you enjoy using it! The project is slowly and steadily maturing and getting better

Big thank you to all contributors, folks who opened issues, instance admins who let us know weird stuff was happening, people who seem to like the code, and people who give us money to write the code!

You can get the release from here: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.9.0

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Highlights:

• PROFILE FIELDS will now be federated. This means you can set key/value fields on your profile, just like other Fedi softwares already have, and they will federate in and out properly! It may take up to 2 days to start seeing fields on remote profiles, be patient ;)
• Kickass new layout for web view of profiles, including fields!
• Initial support for request tracing (https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/blob/main/docs/configuration/observability.md)
• "Subscribe" to an account you follow to receive notifications when they create a new post! (AKA "click the bell" functionality.) Very useful for catching posts of followed accounts who don't post very often.
• Automatic remote status refetching to get up-to-date replies + edits.
• Performance improvements for message sending: you can now configure the rate at which messages will be federated outwards, better spacing out CPU usage and avoiding issues with rate-limiting.
• Lots of caching performance improvements; things should feel generally snappier.
• Suspend accounts from right within the admin panel by clicking through from reports.
• We added a whole bunch of trans rights to the code 🏳️‍⚧️ The code has so much trans rights in it now. If you don't like trans rights, you won't like this code.

@gotosocial Publicising Trans Rights is fine and I, like many, have no objection to you doing it.

However, you might want to consider whether it might impact your ability to gain sponsors in the future.

Your attitude might be "If they won't support us because of our support of Trans culture then screw them!". But would you really want to prejudice your ability to attract new sponsors for more of your developers?

@neil@darlow.co.uk @gotosocial "Are your morals really worth more than money?" there rephrased that for you, ya fuckin weird ghoul.

@neil @gotosocial

Your comment is actually pretty interesting. You reminded of a story. I think it will resonate deeply with you and is pertinent to your point.

My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him. “If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately”. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake.

He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me.

My mother said to me- ‘Don’t ever smoke. Please don’t put your family through what your Grandfather put us through”. I agreed.

At 28, I have never touched a cigarette. I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because your post gave me cancer anyway.

@neil @gotosocial The only reason you'd be raising this is if you personally object to trans rights, or if you want to make space for people who do, and both can fuck right off.

@yassie_j That was a quality shitpost. You had me fooled all the way to the punchline.

@yassie_j @astrid @neil @gotosocial Yassie: I FUCKING LOVE YOU!!!!!!! You just made my already great day beyond comprehension! 💕💕💕

@imdat @astrid @neil @gotosocial what the… How is this post getting traction, I posted it days ago lol

Thank you dear 💖

@yassie_j @astrid @neil @gotosocial “The Ways of Fediverse are inexplicable “ :-)

@imdat @yassie_j @astrid @neil @gotosocial extending beyond the limits of human comprehension is what yassie does best!

@neil @gotosocial this is just a very convoluted way to say you dont actually support trans people.

"I have gender and political views but I will not be expressing them on this platform."
also lol, lmao at that part in your bio. this just reads as "i have opinions so dogshit i am afraid of voicing them here for i might get backlash for them by so many people." and this post absolutely shows it.

@neil @gotosocial@gts.superseriousbusiness.org don’t like it? don’t use it.

@neil How does it feel to get ABSOLUTELY RATIO’D??

@yassie_j @gotosocial@gts.superseriousbusiness.org this was some amazing buildup

@duc I am a master storyteller

@yassie_j We need to archive this