After publishing the results of Discovery Week, we can now give you a first sneak peak at Mastodon 5.0, our next big version. It will bring a new visual look to your screens, a refreshed and calmer layout, as well as a new composer.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/

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@Mastodon Looks great!

But please use the real wildly known Fediverse "logo" instead of this corporate bullshit asterisks

@luana @Mastodon I think you're confusing it with the icon Meta made up for the fediverse. The asterism is a fediverse invention.

@Gargron @Mastodon isn't this heavily inspired on Metas one? It's basically the same anyway, except for asterisks instead of circle people

@luana @Gargron @Mastodon i'm pretty sure it's the other way around, the asterism was original in Fedi first and was then adopted by Meta. doesn't mean insisting on something from Unicode isn't very corporatey anyway, that's literally what Twitter did when it moved to X.