ruelgaviolaI'm enjoying Mastodon so far, mainly as an observer. Still trying to learn the etiquette, especially with CWs and trying to be respectful of the community that was here before a bunch of us board gamers joined. I think what I love the most about Mastodon is that it feels like SOCIAL media, with actual conversations happening and not just a bunch of copy-and-pasted scheduled posts from the birdsite for our latest content or products. It's refreshing.
Elaine@ruelgaviola Yes! I totally agree with you. I've seen a few people referring to it as things like 'community media' rather than social media, which I think is accurate. It feels more like a community encouraging and helping each other. I hope we manage to keep our server that way!
Grayson Page@Nixedpun @ruelgaviola I think it has potential in areas Twitter didn't is refreshing/welcome. Conversely, making sure to be observant of the tech's inherent quirks (no meaningful search?) will take me some time getting accustomed to.
I *hope* this (Mastodon in general) turns out as something other just "second run Twitter." I think it would be sad to find out it doesn't. I'm not sure how I can both get and give value in the short term to help that.
J C Lawrence@gpage @Nixedpun @ruelgaviola Some of that is local. tabletop.social's host has chosen to not support full text search. This is an intentional thing and not necessarily a Bad Thing. Other servers can/do make other choices.
J C Lawrence (@[email protected])
@host Any chance of enabling ElasticSearch (basically: full-text search) on this server?