Gabe RiveraAssorted thoughts on Mastodon and the Fediverse. (Thought I'd offer them up here for people to tell me I'm wrong before recycling them on T*itter):
👍 Some "communities" are rather well-represented here. Some unsurprising tech crowds present in large numbers: future-of-web types, people into open source and open standards, and industry-skeptic/social-justicey folks. The infosec crowd is fairly-well-represented here too. And as I said before, basically every notable blogger from the year 2005 is here!
👎 Startup/venture folks are not here in large numbers. (Yes, @hunterwalk and @mgsiegler are present!) Overall the chicken/egg problem is not cracked for these folks.
😂 Meanwhile, it's kinda funny how crypto people are entirely absent in the Fediverse, given their professed love of decentralization. (Perhaps they were not not so much into decentralization but rather recentralization of wealth around themselves!)
👍 Engagement per follower seems multiple orders of magnitude higher than on Twitter. If you're into engagement, this is the place for you. 😉 (Some of it can feel "reply guy" at times but a lot of it is quite good.)
👉 Anyone who likes Techmeme or Mediagazer linking to their tweets should probably start posting here ASAP. (Due to Twitter's unfortunate API changes and other factors.)
👉 I personally recommend cross-posting here, even if it's the same content posted to Twitter, and even if you're not prepared to engage much. It's good to give people the option to read you.
👉 Fediverse search (opt-in) needs to happen. Fight the naysayers. People are stumbling around in the dark here.
👎 UI issues surrounding following people on other instances continues to be a ***major*** pain point for the fediverse-curious and I hope developers will overcome this soon. 🙏
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👍 Mastodon's APIs are very developer-friendly. I think more nerds would be exploring this place if they realized that.
🥰 That's it for now. Happy Valentine's day. I love you all! 😉
Ottimo Go🥷@gaberivera agree with your opinion
marca56@gaberivera sign me up! I love @ivory on iOS...
herid@gaberivera the 100%. the lack of good search tools on Mastodon is one of the reasons I still use twitter.
David Slifka@herid @gaberivera what sorts of things do you want to search for please?
@davidslifka @herid
1. show me toots linking to [some url]
2. show me latest toots mentioning [some product, place, or person]
1. show me toots linking to [some url]
2. show me latest toots mentioning [some product, place, or person]
@davidslifka @gaberivera any kind of thing. at ALL. I see a news article mentioning a term or some post mentioning something. or a name. almost completely useless to search on mastodon unless it's a single word and made into a hashtag. most search queries are not single words and even those must be made into hashtags in order to be found. most people done bother unless it's some well established topic.
Paul Wilde 
:dontpanic_nobg:@gaberivera huge technical hurdle here... wouldn't really work well with federation unless there was a centralised database of all fediverse instances which would go against the decentralised nature of it all.
I know what you mean though, but it's a bit like the training level on a video game... once you get familiar with it you can literally find anyone/anything
I know what you mean though, but it's a bit like the training level on a video game... once you get familiar with it you can literally find anyone/anything
Rich Stein (he/him)@gaberivera Have you tried Tootfinder https://tootfinder.ch/ by @buercher Opt-in search in prototype. Currently searches two weeks worth of toots. Pretty handy! #feditips #search
@RichStein @buercher Yep, thanks. Needs more people opting in but I'm happy to see that!
@gaberivera @buercher Need to boost -- with hashtags, etc.
InfrogmationFediverse search (opt-in) is already in the process of happening! https://www.tootfinder.ch/
(Also new people need to know you can search for and *follow* hash tags!)
System IV, Building K@gaberivera Agree!
And then you get the inevitable “oh my god, my 10 Masto followers engaged me way more than my 500 Twitter followers, and were smarter and more thoughtful about it”
All I’d ask is that one not *link* to there. Please post a screenshot or copy/paste the actual text. Let’s not drive traffic back to a billionaire sociopath.