QuaxOof__ @QuaxOof__@qoto.org
hi. human here
@nixCraft
By default its not returning any message. I'm on Firefox
I'm working on a #Mastodon tool today that will search for a hashtag across multiple instances and return a list of related hashtags (hashtags returned in the same search, sorted by rated of occurrence.) That should help y'all who are looking for more discovery methods.
While I'm putting that together, check out MastoGizmos: https://mastogizmos.com/ . It's a collection of a dozen one-page, JavaScript-driven tools for exploring Mastodon and Mastoverse. Free, ad-free, works on your phone.
On that story about scientists leaving X and coming here. Please, please lean into the feature of hashtag following and tag your stuff. A lot of us would love to find you and hashtag discovery is the easiest way here.
#scientists #scientist #mastodon #followers #discovery #news
The comments on my post welcoming the migration of scientists to Mastodon has a ton of interesting comments, but one thing comes through again and again:
Mastodon's lack of a broad search capability is a bug, not a feature.
I understand the developer's motivation in excluding it, but -- with great respect -- he is wrong on this.
@mattasdata @samharrison7
I'm quite web/computer techie and having trouble setting myself up in fediverse since 2018. Not that I don't have capabilities to do so - I can quickly research and set-up my satisfying island like You do but due to empathy and belief that no one shouldn't be left off, I'm trying to do so through glasses of those that aren't techie and come from silo solutions. E.g. scientist.
They can have successes but coming from platforms that does it better they're left in feeling they're missing something eg. "It's hard to figure out where folks are hanging at" - from article. Not a good feeling in context of professional development.
I like my take on fediverse: kids started a change with strong solution-first approach that gave them an idea of some problem, where the other way around it's how it's mostly done for significant improvement.
new blog post; The Fediverse and why it makes me miss phpBB
https://washbear.neocities.org/fedi.html
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hi. human here
