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??
💙💛:~/eu/pl/priv$
@djoerd
i thing search by hashtags is enough because poeple have control over what part of post they want to be searchable.
i thing search by hashtags is enough because poeple have control over what part of post they want to be searchable.