fixes #7840

closes #7884

closes #7944

closes #7934

Fixing an oldsyntax error of considering %{actors} as a number, rather than a list of people’s usernames

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closes #7932

Looks dead, last commit over two years ago, and block upgrade of cucumber

See guard/guard-cucumber#36

Set default port to 3000 as this is the default in the diaspora.yml.example

fixes #7927

closes #7928

closes #7930