@JessTheUnstill @abraxas3d Best description I've heard (from this toot: https://mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/116390949725857530) is things here go fungal rather than viral, popping up for likes and retoots months by or years later, especially if you use hashtags newcomers can search / talk about niche interests
#Discoverability #Fungal
Ciara (@[email protected])

@[email protected] I love that this happens. Agreed: the Fediverse is both quirky and lovely. When someone replies to or boosts one of my toots months or years later, I recall someone saying that things don't 'go viral' here, but 'go fungal' or 'go mycelial', growing slowly over time. Sometimes I'll see a great pinned toot or connect with a new mutual and see an old toot on their timeline that I boost. I do worry it might look like stalking, but it's just incidental and coincidental.

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https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/imgy04032601.html
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Are fungal storms becoming more common? What they are, when they strike

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USA TODAY
Fungal electronics

Fungal electronics is a family of living electronic devices made of mycelium bound composites or pure mycelium. Fungal electronic devices are capable of changing their impedance and generating spikes of electrical potential in response to external control parameters. Fungal electronics can be embedded into fungal materials and wearables or used as stand alone sensing and computing devices.

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