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Issue created by Carlos Solís@csolisr

Mastodon mobile app unusable due to lack of "short_description" API field

Environment

  • Installation type (OTP or From Source): OTP, managed by YunoHost
  • Pleroma version (could be found in the "Version" tab of settings in Pleroma-FE): 2.4.2-8-gb34f0a6e-release-2-4-2
  • Elixir version (elixir -v for from source installations, N/A for OTP): N/A
  • Operating system: Debian
  • PostgreSQL version (psql -V): 13.5 (Debian 13.5-0+deb11u1)

Bug description

Mastodon recently released an official application for iOS and Android. While Pleroma is mostly compatible with Mastodon's API, the mobile application now has a required field that is currently not exposed by Pleroma's API, namely short_description:

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As per issue #1470, this field along with approval_required, which were added in Mastodon's API version 2.9.2, were deemed "not applicable" at the moment of creating the equivalent Pleroma API. There are two ways of fixing this: by adding the corresponding API entry (potentially mirroring the value on description if required), or by asking the creators of the Mastodon app to relax their requirements and accept description as a fallback value if short_description is not exposed by an alternate API.