Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉I love Mastodon and I research search engines, so when we set up a mastodon instance at the University of Twente, we planned to research federated search, who-to-follow recommendations, and trending topics. Students worked on this in one of our courses:
When engaging with the community, I quickly learnt that many tooters actively oppose search, recommendation and most other "algorithmic" tools. As a researcher in Information Retrieval I was kind of shocked: How could someone NOT like search??
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｜霜の狼｜人面獣心」🐺❄️@djoerd (just so you know that link is a web UI link, so we can't pop it into our client to pull up the post – could y'maybe put in the "copy link" link somewhere? It's actually better than URLbar-copying on Mastodon, for once. >,,>)
@frostwolf What do you mean with "copy link"? The instance at mastodon.utwente.nl was shut down in July, so the original post is gone now; it's quite amazing that idf.social still has those posts. Apparently, Mastodon servers hold on to everything they've seen for ever(?)
@frostwolf Now I understand, see:
Djoerd Hiemstra (@[email protected])
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@djoerd Ah, yes! That's the actual canonical link. Sorry I didn't get back before, it just totally slipped my mind.