Jake in the desertJul 2, 2023

So @researchbuzz (follow them!) has created a Mastodon URL Helper tool (for desktop, probably won't work on mobile) and it is a REALLY good, simple tool to quickly show the information from your username on Mastodon, including your RSS info. (Did you know if you put .rss after your username you can see your own feed from here as an RSS feed??)

My results from using the URL helper are attached here as the image -- and try it out for yourself here:

https://searchgizmos.com/muh

And make sure to poke around on the rest of https://searchgizmos.com -- there's all kinds of great stuff on there.

#mastodon #rss #MastodonURLs #fedi #fediverse #RSSFeeds #search #SearchGIzmos

Mastodon URL Helper - ResearchBuzz Search Gizmos

Do you know all the tricks your Mastodon username can do? Find out here. You’ve probably seen Mastodon names in several different formats, like mstdn.social/@Feditips or @[email protected] . These formats can be confusing if you’re used to centralized social media, so I made this little tool to show you how…

ResearchBuzz Search Gizmos
Show threadCory DoctorowMay 20, 2023

Despite a decade of energetic commons-enclosing, some of the staunchest bastions of openness and generativity continue to thrive, like #Wikipedia, an encyclopedia that isn't just #FreeAsInBeer, it's also #FreeAsInSpeech - free to mix and remix as you choose.

Here's a whole passel of delightful Wikipedia-generated search tools, the #SearchGizmos, a whole suite of special-purpose search tools that mine Wikipedia for informational goodies:

https://searchgizmos.com/

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- ResearchBuzz Search Gizmos

Using JavaScript to explore search questions through tools and experiments.

ResearchBuzz Search Gizmos