Mastodawn

Voline Nov 6, 2022

Tip for the new folk:
Often Mastodon’s features work the way they do because it was first populated by people who had been harassed on FB and the Birdsite.

For instance (not sorry), you cannot search Masto for a simple term. Only #hashtags. Say you’re having a private conversation about iguanas. Anti-iguana trolls will not be able to search for “iguanas”, find your conversation, and drop into it to say, “Iguana luvers suck!”

But if you are wanting to connect with new iguana fanciers on Mastodon, slipping an #iguanas hashtag somewhere into your posts will allow people to search for and find them.

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Theodora Michaels

@Voline This is sensible, and I'm sure I recall a time when Twitter worked like this too. You could search for #Anonymous and it would bring up tweets about the hacktivist movement. Then at some point they changed it, so a search for that hashtag brought up random tweets using "anonymous" in other contexts, making the search useless. There must be other examples of this, like brand names that are also common words. Hashtagging is a deliberate act which should be reflected in search results.