Mastodon does not offer federated full text search on what people posted, right? Compared to Twitter that makes it much harder to find people on niche topics.
@FroehlichMarcel freemo is someone who could help connect you with other scientists.
@AmpBenzScientist Thanks @AmpBenzScientist my question is not so much about me. I’d like to convince more people to switch from Twitter to M. But without additional search capabilities is will be hard to reproduce the experience they find useful.
@AmpBenzScientist Hashtags seem to be key both on profile and in posts for discoverability.
@freemo when I / others use lots of hashtags, what are features that make use of it beyond local search?
@freemo @AmpBenzScientist For example yesterday I published a thread on biology and cryptography. Not exactly a popular topic. In the vast fediverse there should a few people interested in this. How do I properly make my content/profile discoverable. And how can I actively search those? #Mastodon
@AmpBenzScientist @freemo I plan to publish many more such science threads that I already accumulated on Twitter, but first I want to get it right to avoid posting into the void.
@FroehlichMarcel @freemo Post and people will see it. You will attract a following. Searching is frowned upon due to privacy and spiders constantly pulling bandwidth.
