Assorted thoughts on Mastodon and the Fediverse. (Thought I'd offer them up here for people to tell me I'm wrong before recycling them on T*itter):
👍 Some "communities" are rather well-represented here. Some unsurprising tech crowds present in large numbers: future-of-web types, people into open source and open standards, and industry-skeptic/social-justicey folks. The infosec crowd is fairly-well-represented here too. And as I said before, basically every notable blogger from the year 2005 is here!
👎 Startup/venture folks are not here in large numbers. (Yes, @hunterwalk and @mgsiegler are present!) Overall the chicken/egg problem is not cracked for these folks.
😂 Meanwhile, it's kinda funny how crypto people are entirely absent in the Fediverse, given their professed love of decentralization. (Perhaps they were not not so much into decentralization but rather recentralization of wealth around themselves!)
👍 Engagement per follower seems multiple orders of magnitude higher than on Twitter. If you're into engagement, this is the place for you. 😉 (Some of it can feel "reply guy" at times but a lot of it is quite good.)
👉 Anyone who likes Techmeme or Mediagazer linking to their tweets should probably start posting here ASAP. (Due to Twitter's unfortunate API changes and other factors.)
👉 I personally recommend cross-posting here, even if it's the same content posted to Twitter, and even if you're not prepared to engage much. It's good to give people the option to read you.
👉 Fediverse search (opt-in) needs to happen. Fight the naysayers. People are stumbling around in the dark here.
@gaberivera the 100%. the lack of good search tools on Mastodon is one of the reasons I still use twitter.
@davidslifka @herid
1. show me toots linking to [some url]
2. show me latest toots mentioning [some product, place, or person]
@davidslifka @gaberivera any kind of thing. at ALL. I see a news article mentioning a term or some post mentioning something. or a name. almost completely useless to search on mastodon unless it's a single word and made into a hashtag. most search queries are not single words and even those must be made into hashtags in order to be found. most people done bother unless it's some well established topic.
@herid @gaberivera what sorts of things do you want to search for please?