Data import/export gains the persona's archive (PrivaPub's /clientapi/persona/{id}/archive): made on PrivaPub in
Mastodon's account-archive layout and downloaded through a link; and an archive, its own or Mastodon's, uploaded in
pieces straight from the picked file (js/transfer.js) and imported into the persona, the parts chosen (likes, located
and scheduled posts only when ticked), with progress, a report of what came and what was left out, and Stop. Imported
posts are delivered to no one.
e2e: a town persona's archive downloaded and imported into another, whose profile then shows the posts; the copies are
taken away after.
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A Backups section (for administrators, PrivaPub's /clientapi/admin/backups): the backups kept with their kind, size,
media and the logins deleted since, what runs, the restore waiting and the last restore's report. Back up now; download
for the password through a link good for ten minutes, which the browser saves to disk; upload a downloaded backup in
pieces straight from the picked file (js/transfer.js PUTs file.slice at the offset PrivaPub has, never through .NET's
memory, and carries on after a refused or lost piece); delete after asking; restore for the password and the host typed
out, saying what it keeps and what it loses, then showing PrivaPub restarting until the ended session sends the page to
sign in.
e2e: a backup made, downloaded and uploaded again; and, only with --filter "Category=Restore", a real restore of the
pasture, which signs the town in again.
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The composer uploads each file as soon as it is attached (streamed from the browser file, under its own ten-minute
timeout), shows it uploading, processing (a 202 followed until ready), ready or failed with Retry, and cancels one
removed; publishing sends the ids, so a failed publish or a retried upload sends nothing twice. Size limits and types
come from /api/v2/instance, a file without a browser type gets one from its extension, and each refusal names the file
and why. Previews are 320 px thumbnails, not whole files in memory. A picture without a description is asked about once
("Publish anyway"; a setting turns it off), descriptions are sent with PUT, and an edit keeps the post's media, language
and sensitive flag.
Profile pictures are checked against the server's types and can be removed. A card shows "Media unavailable" with the
original's link when a picture fails, the blurhash behind a sensitive placeholder, and plays a GIF only on tap under
reduced motion. A failed export says so instead of downloading part of a file.
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A located post's card had no action at all, so whoever wrote one (with this device's position) could not take it back
from the app. The persona's own located card now has Delete, which asks first, without the line about other servers
(a located post never left PrivaPub), and goes through /clientapi/post/delete, since the Mastodon API looks past
located posts. The globe's end-to-end test deletes the post it writes this way.
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Settings has a Notifications section, also at /notifications/filtered: what notifications from people the persona does
not follow, people who do not follow it, new accounts, private mentions it did not ask for and limited accounts become
(accept, filter, drop), and the filtered ones, one request per account, let in (with that account from then on) or
dismissed. The Notifications tab says when requests wait. e2e: a stranger's like waits in a request reached from the
tab and comes back once let in; the policy and the stranger's permission are put back afterwards (Pasture.Mongo).
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Another's profile and posts can be reported from the client (/api/v1/reports): a category, words, and for a remote
account a copy to its server, which PrivaPub sends from its own actor, never naming the persona. Who liked or boosted
a post opens from its card's menu (favourited_by, reblogged_by). e2e: a report from a Mastodon account's profile
reaches PrivaPub's moderators forwarded, and a post's likes and boosts list the persona who gave them; the admin
helper the tests share moves to Support.
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The card marks an edited post with a button that opens its versions, newest first (/statuses/:id/history), each with
its time, warning and words; PrivaPub now has a remote post's earlier versions from Pleroma's formerRepresentations
too. The composer's e2e test opens the history after its edit. The wall test retries smuser's post while Smithereen
has not yet had the persona's Accept.
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A Login section in Settings changes the root's password (the current one
given) and deletes the whole login, every persona with it, after its
password and an explicit "I understand"; the client then signs out. Both
use PrivaPub's existing /clientapi/user routes.
The e2e signs up a login of its own, changes its password and deletes it,
checking each against PrivaPub's login. Signing in now waits for either
the feed or an enabled persona chooser, so a login with one persona (which
goes on by itself) and a new persona's empty feed both sign in.
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The Groups page (/groups, in the menu) is where a persona makes a community
or a circle (with its invitation code and an optional password), joins one
by invitation and leaves one. For the groups it runs it edits them, shows
the invitation, lets in or declines the requests to join, and takes members
out, through PrivaPub's new /clientapi/group/members, reject and remove.
The e2e makes a circle, joins it as another persona with the code, and has
the owner take that member out.
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PrivaPub lets a persona join another server's event (owner decision
2026-10-05). The card of a remote event shows the persona's participation
(pending, accepted, rejected) with Join or Leave, except for events by
invitation or taken on another site. Joining is public on the event's
server, so the first join asks the persona once, as reactions and votes do,
remembered apart from them (PublicAct).
The e2e joins the event SocialPub's Mobilizon scenario keeps, checks the
participant on Mobilizon and PrivaPub's answer, and leaves it.
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Settings, which held only the theme, now belong to the persona too:
- its profile (update_credentials, a new PATCH in IHttpService): pictures,
name, biography and fields as written, locked, bot, discoverable,
indexable, and how its posts start (visibility, language, sensitive
media, who may quote them); the composer starts at that visibility;
- the root's personas, each used in turn, and a new one made;
- the accounts it muted or blocked and the servers it blocked, each undone
there, a server blocked from a pasted address or handle;
- its follows, lists, blocks, mutes, blocked servers and bookmarks exported
and imported as the CSV files Mastodon writes (PortabilityService): an
import resolves each row through PrivaPub, one at a time, and can stop.
Administration opens to moderators: reports, resolved there; and for
administrators the servers blocked for everyone and the federation
statistics (traffic by server, delivery success and latency, the crawler).
The Direct tab pages conversations, badges the unread ones, and a card
marks one read or takes it off the list; opening one reads it.
A remote thread is read again 4 and 15 seconds after it opens, since
PrivaPub then fetches the replies its servers hold. A thread its
community locked shows a lock instead of a reply button, reactions stay
visible below a content warning, and a searched handle opens its
account's profile whatever else matched.
The e2e tests cover each: the profile saved and read back, a persona made,
servers blocked and imported, follows exported, an instance block and the
statistics as the pasture's admin, a conversation read and removed, and a
reply only Mastodon held appearing in its thread.
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The composer can hold a poll instead of media (two to four choices, a
length, one choice or several), quote a post (offered on a card when the
server says the persona may quote it), and edit the persona's own post: its
words and warning come from /source, and saving keeps its media,
visibility and poll. A card's menu offers Edit and Quote, and now opens
sideways: upwards, the first card's menu was cut off by the top of the
feed. The e2e tests publish a poll, edit a post and quote it, each checked
on PrivaPub.
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The Notifications tab reads grouped notifications (/api/v2/notifications):
likes and boosts of one post, or follows of one hour, are one card naming
both accounts of a pair, or the newest and how many others, with their
avatars. A notification the stream tells joins its group and waits on top.
The tab's badge counts what is unread; opening the tab moves the
notifications marker to the newest shown, which reads it on PrivaPub.
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The composer's clock button gives a post a time (scheduled_at, at least five
minutes ahead; located and group posts have none), and /scheduled moves or
drops what waits. A hashtag's feed tab shows its week and follows it, so its
public posts come home. Explore (/explore) shows what PrivaPub says is
trending, hashtags, posts and links from public posts it holds, the
directory by activity or by joining, and the hashtags the persona follows.
DiscoveryService does the calls; the e2e tests check each against PrivaPub's
own answer.
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The persona's filters (PrivaPub's /api/v2/filters): made, given words and
whole-word rules, contexts, an action and an expiry on /filters (linked from
Settings), and deleted; posts filtered one by one can be taken out. Every
status says which filters it matches; each page tells its cards where they
are (home and lists, notifications, public feeds, the thread around the
opened post, profiles), and a card leaves its post out (hide), folds it
behind the filter's title with a way to show it anyway (warn), or blurs its
media (blur). The e2e test folds and then hides a post of the persona's own.
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A persona's lists (PrivaPub's /api/v1/lists): made, renamed, given a
replies policy and made exclusive on /lists, filled from the accounts it
follows (accounts/search?following=true), and read as the feed's Lists tab.
A followed account's profile has a Lists menu to put it in or take it out.
ListService does the calls; the e2e tests check each step against
PrivaPub's own answer.
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tests/e2e (Playwright for .NET 1.61.0 on xunit v3, the Chromium 1228 already
cached, never downloaded, never in CI) runs the published app against
SocialPub's pasture and its town: run.sh publishes it with the Pasture
environment (wwwroot/appsettings.Pasture.json, published only then; the
deploy fails if it ever ships) and serves it as https://decepub.test. The
tests sign in through the real login page and persona chooser, check that
every request goes only to decepub.test and privapub.test with the right
credential on the right API, render one post of each kind from each
platform as its author wrote it, and check every action on the other
side of the wire (town.sh stored): favourites, boosts and replies with
their undoing, follows from a profile, votes, reactions. Each test is also
a cell of the town's report (out/client.jsonl). They found two PrivaPub
bugs fixed there (a blocked author's status answered null; sensitive
remote media invented a content warning) and a reply addressed to nobody.
New in the app, all checked by those tests:
- profiles at /account/{id}: header, bio, fields, counts, the account's
posts as posts, posts and replies, or media, and follow, unfollow,
cancel a request, mute and block (AccountService); post authors and
notifications open them in the app;
- search at /search: accounts, posts and hashtags, a handle or an address
resolved by PrivaPub;
- poll voting on the card, and emoji reactions shown and given with one
tap; before a persona's first reaction or vote it is told once that
both are public (PublicNoticeService, the owner's decision);
- follow requests answered from their notification.
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A post whose server is behind a CDN has no place of its own: the globe
groups such posts per CDN in labels on a ring above the Arctic, and
hovering one draws its arc to the CDN's group and a ring where the
server was before the CDN. The card's CDN chip names the CDN, its
domain, how PrivaPub found it (published ranges, response headers or
network), the place before the CDN and the CDN's servers week by week
(/api/privapub/v1/cdns/:domain); the author's tooltip lists the server's
changes of place and CDN week by week (/instances/:host/history). Both
are read on the first hover and kept for the session.
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One sign-in for both of PrivaPub's APIs: the root logs in on /clientapi,
picks a persona, and each persona gets its own Mastodon token in
exchange for the JWT (PersonaExchange). HttpService picks credentials
and JSON by route (JWT and camelCase for /clientapi, the persona token
and snake_case for /api, nothing for /oauth), retries a refused persona
token once, and records every request for the nerd stats.
The feed page is three columns: navigation with a persona switcher, the
feed with a tab per kind (home, local, federated, nearby, communities
and circles, direct, notifications, favourites, bookmarks, hashtags),
and a 3D globe that looks at the spherical mean of the posts in view
and draws a pulse and an arc to a hovered one. Posts sit at their own
place, their event's venue, the reader (located posts) or their
author's server as PrivaPub publishes it. Cards favourite, boost,
bookmark, reply, mute, block and delete; the composer posts with a
content warning, visibility, media and alt text, or as a located post.
Older pages load as the end nears; newer ones are polled while visible.
Nerd stats in tooltips: provenance, author and server, place, media,
counts, paging, the globe's camera and frame rate.
The mock (Faker, MessagesService, the Message models and store) and the
OIDC template leftovers are gone. Strings in English and Italian.
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