Steven T. DennisMastodon’s limitations mean it relies more on its users to surface good content. Search doesn’t really work. There are far fewer suggested posts. QTs don’t really exist yet. Trending doesn’t really work. So boosting becomes the absolutely critical way for other people to find interesting things. IE, if you see something you like, boost/RT it, tag people who you think might be interested, etc.
Boosts on here are what will make or break Mastodon. If people can find other interesting people and content, they will stay and the site will grow. If its too much of a chore, they won’t. Other sites reward lazier social media grazing, and they surface content designed to maximize engagement, which often = lies, hate, stuff that enrages rather than enlightens. Mastodon just surfaces what imembers boost.
Shield Maiden@steventdennis Searching via hashtags is good too.
@Judeet88 it’s ok but doesn’t seem to work for long.
@steventdennis "for long"...in what way? It surely depends on whether you're searching for in-the-news topics or something a bit more obscure?
@Judeet88 If you search on one of my hashtags, #FridayNightZillow only recent posts are included in the search. Which is a shame as it’s a weekly feature, so you have to go somewhere else to find all of them easily.
Paul Chambers🚧When I search the hashtag, the search results goes all the way back to your first mention of the #FridayNightZillow when you started posting regularly on Mastodon.
After a while, it took a moment after I reached the end for the older Toot posts to appear, but the next "page" scroll of toots were fetched in matter of 10 or so seconds.
Maybe so. I think I responded near the same day, and I follow the hashtag, so it might be cached differently on my end/instance.
The problem might be with journa.host not whitelisting the #FridayNightZillow hashtag in the admin's hashtag moderation because a simple search of your famous #FridayNightZillow hashtag on journa.host shows no results. So, other instances is caching only
If @info admin is reading this, they can whitelist it here: https://journa.host/admin/trends/tags