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<p class="subheader">Feb 2023</p>
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<p class="intro">The last year in the fediverse has been quite eventful, with a massive tidal wave of new users <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk">fleeing the sinking ship of Twitter</a>. But so far as <a href="https://libreserver.org/epicyon">Epicyon</a> has been concerned it has been calm sailing. There have been no major features added over the last year, but as always there have been many small improvements and bug fixes. These include:</p>
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<li>Theme and theme designer improvements</li>
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<li>A <i>buy button</i> for when you want to link to something that you're selling</li>
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<li>General security improvements</li>
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<li>Conversation view, avoiding direct links to the Mastodon user interface</li>
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<li>Progressive Web App improvements</li>
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<li>Quote Toot suppression</li>
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<li>Copyright notices added to individual posts</li>
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<li>Improved display of remote hashtags</li>
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<li>Support for auto-linking scientific paper references</li>
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<li>Edit button</li>
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<li>Improved calendar events</li>
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<li>Added a <a href="https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/epicyon/-/blob/main/manual/manual.md">user manual</a></li>
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<li>Hashtag maps for crowdsourced geolocations</li>
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<li>Option to expire old posts</li>
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<li>Better emoji support</li>
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<li>Included an updated version of the <a href="https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/epicyon/-/blob/main/specification/activitypub.md">ActivityPub specification</a></li>
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<li>Unicode fonts no longer bypass filters</li>
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<li>vCard support</li>
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<li>Improved podcast support</li>
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<li>Additional language support: Korean, Turkish, Bengali, Dutch, Ukranian, Swahili, Persian and Greek</li>
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<li><b>Bo</b>ld <b>Read</b>ing <b>accessi</b>bility <b>feat</b>ure</li>
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<li>Improved compatibility with shell browsers</li>
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<li>Additional format fupport: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)">opus</a></li>
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<li>Improved account level control over display of images</li>
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<li>Can set the language when creating a new post, for multilingual users</li>
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<li>Improved support for Questions/Votes</li>
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<li>Theme and theme designer improvements</li>
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<li>A <i>buy button</i> for when you want to link to something that you're selling</li>
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<li>General security improvements</li>
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<li>Conversation view, avoiding direct links to the Mastodon user interface</li>
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<li>Progressive Web App improvements</li>
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<li>Quote Toot suppression</li>
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<li>Copyright notices added to individual posts</li>
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<li>Improved display of remote hashtags</li>
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<li>Support for auto-linking scientific paper references</li>
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<li>Edit button</li>
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<li>Improved calendar events</li>
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<li>Added a <a href="https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/epicyon/-/blob/main/manual/manual.md">user manual</a></li>
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<li>Hashtag maps for crowdsourced geolocations</li>
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<li>Option to expire old posts</li>
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<li>Better emoji support</li>
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<li>Included an updated version of the <a href="https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/epicyon/-/blob/main/specification/activitypub.md">ActivityPub specification</a></li>
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<li>Unicode fonts no longer bypass filters</li>
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<li>vCard support</li>
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<li>Improved podcast support</li>
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<li>Additional language support: Korean, Turkish, Bengali, Dutch, Ukranian, Swahili, Persian and Greek</li>
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<li><b>Bo</b>ld <b>Read</b>ing <b>accessi</b>bility <b>feat</b>ure</li>
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<li>Improved compatibility with shell browsers</li>
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<li>Additional format fupport: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)">opus</a></li>
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<li>Improved account level control over display of images</li>
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<li>Can set the language when creating a new post, for multilingual users</li>
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<li>Improved support for Questions/Votes</li>
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</ul>
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<img src="v1_4_0.webp" />
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<p class="intro">The present time is an interesting juncture in the history of the web. Either the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/social-web-protocols">social web</a> approach succeeds and ActivityPub and related protocols become widely supported, or perhaps some trendy new centralized microblog emerges and the social web falls dormant for another decade. The former seems more likely, but the path of technology is notoriously hard to predict because it depends upon so many factors, and companies are always trying to enclose and extract value from the digital commons in a non-reciprocating way. Another possible danger is that the largest fediverse instances might commercialize and combine to create a new monopolistic silo system, and then abandon support for open protocols following the familiar <i>bait and switch</i> method.</p>
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<p class="intro">So it's really down to us to keep things small and decentralized. To scale out rather than up.</p>
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<p class="intro">Epicyon can be downloaded as <a href="epicyon.tar.gz">a gzipped file</a>, or you can get the latest version from the <a href="https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/epicyon">git repo</a>. For installation instructions see <a href="index.html">the main page</a>. To upgrade an existing instance, make sure that you have the python3-cryptography package installed then do a git pull, chown and restart the daemon. <i>Upgrades to web systems do not need to be a huge drama</i>.</p>
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