Doug Gladden@JSteed is right: If all the #appellatetwitter people use the hashtag just once, we can all find each other
@JSteed dang it, it looks like my search for #appellatetwitter shows only users either 1) on the same "instance" or 2) that I follow. Am I doing something wrong?
Don Cruse@dougthelawyer @JSteed You're not doing anything wrong. The way "search" works here is strange, especially to professionals who do advanced searches for a living. The search hits aren't limited to each server. But they do vary, depending on which server you search. (This seems to improve as servers are online longer.)
For wider searches, I've used the main web page for bigger servers (mastodon.online, mastodon.social, mstdn.social). Try more than one, as they can also return different results.
Jeri Dansky@doncruse @dougthelawyer @JSteed This document does a good job explaining why you don't see results from all posts on all Mastodon instances when you do a search. It's a bit complex: https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futuristic-mastodon-introduction-for-2021