Big improvements to finding and adding people to follow, including from Mastodon:

• bulk follow of people, using a CSV file exported from Mastodon
• improve layout of people list info cards
• add people navigation elements to Explore menu
• search for people in the main search tool

Go to https://piefed.social/instance/people/interesting to check it out. Sorting is based on average number of upvotes received per post or comment.

Option to manually approve followers rather than just automatically accept all. You can turn this on in your user settings and then look for 'Follow requests' on the Account menu.

RSS feeds which automatically create posts in communities, with flair to distinguish multiple feeds in same community. Admins need to set the RSS_FEEDS environment variable to enable this. Currently testing this in these communities !bbc_rss@crust.piefed.social and !aljazeera_rss@crust.piefed.social. When there are multiple feeds in a community, each gets it's own flair which people can subscribe to independently by clicking 'Membership' in the community sidebar (recent v1.7.x versions only).

Admins can see a list of unmoderated communities, so they know where the liabilities are. Go to Admin -> Communities -> Unmoderated.

Misc features

Fix removepaywall link.

Stop spammers from sharing links in their bio.

'Mark as read' icon on post teasers.

API: filter post/list endpoint for user languages - thanks to wjs018

API: add unread comment counts to postview result.

Remove annoying blogspot.com url filter.

Better instance chooser search that finds more things.

Updated translations. Filipino languages coming along well.

To upgrade from earlier 1.7.x

./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh

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