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Gabi PurcaruI recently joined Mastodon, and I found it jarring that it has very few discoverability features.
So Iโve built this little tool to help build connections with people: https://followgraph.vercel.app/
Check it out!
dbcohen@gabipurcaru this is awesome, thanks for putting it together
Adam Gessaman 
@gabipurcaru This is super cool. I was initially confused why it wouldn't work for me, until I remembered that I had checked the "Hide my social graph" option in the settings. Maybe one more line for your FAQ?
@adam yep good call
Yirba ๐๐งโ๐ป@gabipurcaru Thanks for making this. Really useful!
Just a suggestion: it would be handy to have a link to each user's profile on their home instance, so you can browse their posts before deciding whether to follow them.
Just a suggestion: it would be handy to have a link to each user's profile on their home instance, so you can browse their posts before deciding whether to follow them.
Kuba Suder@Yirba @gabipurcaru +1 to this
WhatCouldPossiblyHappen@Yirba @gabipurcaru +1 for this suggestion.
The tool is great. Would be cool to have it in mastodon natively.
The tool is great. Would be cool to have it in mastodon natively.
Lisa
Brian Krohne@gabipurcaru I really like this idea, but it mostly suggests people I am already following. Maybe because it can't load the complete list of my 3.7k follows?
locke@gabipurcaru nice tool but uh is the graphic of people you're using supposed to be nice or is it intentionally terrifying 'AI' art?
@birlocke_ @gabipurcaru it looks nice as long as you don't zoom in ๐
merely rhys@gabipurcaru This is pretty cool!
A little weirdness: it doesn't find me at [email protected], but does find me at [email protected]
I think that's likely because it doesn't traverse webfinger across redirects to WEB_DOMAIN as per: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#web_domain
(Or I'm confused and don't understand how webfinger is meant to work...)
Winston R. Milling@rhys @gabipurcaru Had to do the same thing for my server as well, since I host on a different domain than my account name. Minor annoyance, but would be great if it worked with the WEB_DOMAINs.
Ian K Tindale@gabipurcaru out of interest, I tried it but it doesn't recognise my address
this in turn probably means I wonโt show up in the results of other people trying it
this in turn probably means I wonโt show up in the results of other people trying it
BlueTurtle@gabipurcaru Great idea. A very good working discoverability feature is following hashtags.
๐๐๏ธ Alan Taylor ๐ฌ ๐All good...but will the opening image be improved upon?
rands@gabipurcaru Instantly useful. Thank you.
KK@gabipurcaru this is awesome! Itโs going to take me a while to follow everyone I found, but this was very helpful. Thank you!
David Sleight@gabipurcaru Put of curiosity, did you use AI to generate the promo art on the homepage of your app?
Mark A Lemley@gabipurcaru This is extraordinarily useful
Bert Latamore@gabipurcaru The lack of discoverbility is a feature, not a fault. We work to protect the vulnerable among us and provide a safe place for everybody. So we make it easy for people who want to hide, for instance from violent spouses or racists and neo-Nazis, to do so. That is why you cannot search by name or text outside your instance. The only search is by #hashtag. So if you want to be found, add #hashtages to your tweets.
@BertL thanks for the feedback!
I looked into this, and I see that Mastodon allows people to explicitly opt out of being discovered by setting a flag on their profile ("Suggest account to others").
#followgraph honours this flag and hides people who don't want to be discovered.
PCEngine๐น๐ฅท@gabipurcaru Thanks for making Mastodon better!
Renee DiResta@gabipurcaru Iโm getting no results. Is that because of a setting? I checked and believe my lists are public.
Stephen Cerruti@gabipurcaru this is pretty cool.
1) I wish there was an easy way to save it send it
2) second wish - post/boost/reply stats is this person merely sharing out are they generating content
3) third wish - the warnings looked like an interesting tool all in itself, possibly pruning dead follows?
Christian Wilms@scerruti @gabipurcaru The warnings are not useful for that, as whole servers are missed (qoto.org for example). So they can be false negatives.
Josh Peek
vijay@gabipurcaru This is fantastic, found dozens of great follows in minutes.
Jeff Moore@gabipurcaru This is fantastic!
Michael Baym@gabipurcaru it would also be very cool to see the inverse: who follows the people who follow you but donโt follow you?
Helchose@gabipurcaru Oh this is a cool tool! Thank you.
Andreas Kuckartz@gabipurcaru Thanks a lot. I wonder if anyone is working on adding such data to an graph database such as an #RDF triple store.
Worderer@gabipurcaru That's super helpful. The platform definitely needs to integrate something like this.
John Nephew@gabipurcaru this is super helpful. Thank you!!
Bogdan@gabipurcaru, this sounds like a great idea! I guess itโs a basic version of PYMK! I tried to use it and it didnโt work though, from the very quick response, I assume it couldnโt get any information re: my account or something like that.
Dan Rabinowitz@gabipurcaru This is so cool. Thanks, Gabi!
M Morgan@gabipurcaru This is great!
Iftach Yakar@gabipurcaru great idea. Does it work for all servers? I seem to be getting no results, not sure why
marcusleemitchell โ
@gabipurcaru thank you. Sincerely.
Monica Heilman ์งํ@gabipurcaru This is great! Found some people that birdapp migration tools didn't pick up on.
xs4me2@gabipurcaru
This is great, thank you!
This is great, thank you!
DimerHunton :toucan:@gabipurcaru I love the idea of this but canny figure out why it doesnโt work when I put in my full handle.
Lisi Hocke@gabipurcaru I thought I've already found lots of previous connections here, and yet your tool allowed me to discover a bunch more, plus awesome new people! Thanks a lot ๐๐ป
Chorist@gabipurcaru I canโt get it to work. Could it be an issue with Hometown?
Paisley P. Peinforte ๐ชฌ@gabipurcaru this is a great tool, thank you for it!
Using it on mobile I see how much friction there is in cross-server following on Mastodon.
Every time I tap "follow" I had to copy /rewrite the handle from server/handle format & paste back into Tusky / search until I started copying the handle text from the app & pasting /searching in Tusky that way.
A button to load a handle to clipboard or a way to redirect to the searcher's server w/ search prefilled might help a lot.
Peter Frederick@gabipurcaru Excellent tool. I've added a bunch of new people that I know and have seen but missed following them. Thank you. ๐๐
lewisnelson@gabipurcaru what a great tool.. thanks for that
lolonurse@gabipurcaru
Thank you!
Thank you!
Chris Masterson
ward@gabipurcaru mastodon only for now it seems. I wonder what it needs to support misskey and calckey
Nina Roussakoff@gabipurcaru Wow this is great! I got lots of really high quality suggestions through this! A bunch of people I used to follow on twitter as well but movetodon.org somehow missed! So thank you for that! ๐
David Oxley (is on Bluesky)@gabipurcaru @dox Really found this useful and unobtrusive, thank you!
frederic@gabipurcaru
Somehow it doesn't work for my handle even though i have the "hide your social graph" option disabled.
Somehow it doesn't work for my handle even though i have the "hide your social graph" option disabled.
Suz Korbel@gabipurcaru Wow! This is great! Thank you for immediately introducing me to everybody I wanted to know!
Hobson Lane@gabipurcaru Love the avoidance of csv download and other automation traps. Wish the ranking algorithm were a little more transparent and configurable by the user.
Anders Puck Nielsen@gabipurcaru It worked great, and I found interesting people to follow. Thanks!
Solar๐Garden@gabipurcaru There is nothing in this list yet. When members of this list publish new posts, they will appear here.
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Gabi Purcaru
@gabipurcaru
I recently joined Mastodon, and I found it jarring that it has very few discoverability features.
So Iโve built this little tool to help build connections with people: https://followgraph.vercel.app/
Check it out!
#mastodon #discovery #discoverability #fediverse
What struck me about my specific results was that they all had large followings.
Is there a bottom cut-off? I find this problematic in that I want to create a *peer* base here, and am DELIBERATELY AVOIDING FOLLOWING ORGS with paid social media reps and prolific RTers.
How about mining the next level? And including filters for max / min followers?
MOVED to @@gabipurcaru is there a way to use this even if you have your followers hidden on your profile?
@sc no; Followgraph does not use and doesn't plan to use any data that is not already public.
Ragekit@gabipurcaru i confirm just in case that it seems to not work on hometown
Diana FisherThis is great to see a list of people who have interacted with you on Mastadon, and their bios. followgraph.vercel.app/ However I followed several people then got a notification that it was 'rate limited' and try again in a minute. Is there a limit to following new people on this server?