@dajb @rajiv
Hm. When I think of my work, that covers a range of stuff:
-higher ed
-the future in general, which includes politics, tech, etc.
There's got to be interest here on that stuff.
When I post on my personal life, it's often photography, cats,food, culture. Again, I don't see the failure - unless I'm just that boring.
@bryanalexander @dajb @rajiv without using hashtags, it won’t be seen by a more diverse set of people. The (low volume) hashtags I subscribe to I quite enjoy and should probably go look for more.
Servers other than social have some local discovery through the local timeline. I think the Fediverse needs stronger search & discovery but many are dead set against this.
Also it’s not you ;) It’s the diaspora reboot of microblogging across multiple systems.
@bryanalexander @dajb @rajiv do a search for any hashtag, and your client should have an interface to follow or “subscribe” to that hashtag.
Any posts with that hashtag will show up in your home feed whether or not you follow the account that posted it.
Attached a screenshot in the Ivory iOS app of a search for “edtech”.
And I would recommend a different interface than the default Mastodon web
@bryanalexander @dajb @rajiv yes, Home is your personal feed and is where follows and subscribed hashtags show just for you.
Local is everyone posting on your instance, and Federated is all of the posts from all of the accounts that people on your instance follow (and potentially posts from Relay servers).
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