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/
@Mastodon for the love of dog, please give us the possibility to configure different visibility defaults for initial posts and replies. Good mobile clients already do that, because using the same default for both is just wrong in plenty of use cases. I'm glad that the modal dialogue for visibility is going away, but if I had the possibility to configure two defaults, I would almost never have to change the visibility in the first place