Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Jul 3, 2023

To the people complaining that there aren't enough artists here: are you following any art hashtags? Actually, same question to people who say mastodon doesn't have enough of whatever! Just follow some hashtags! Trust me if you do soon enough your feed will be absolutely drowning in your interest unless it's super niche

And then you can follow people who pop up on there, and maybe even eventually unfollow the hashtag

Show threadSteven Bodzin

@eniko that's not a helpful take. If your interest is, like, the entire country of Chile, you will find almost nothing tagged #Chile. The problem with following hashtags is you only find posts that use that hashtag, and most people don't use hashtags in their posts.

We need full text search, yesterday.

Jul 3, 2023 at 9:12pmWeb
Show threadNeonJul 3, 2023
@guacamayan Hi there! I believe this post specifically came out from people talking about not finding art on here, and for some topics (e.g., art), this is actually a very helpful tip as people do actually hashtag these posts. For topics that do not get tagged very much, you might be better off following specific users. Full text search is supported on Calckey/Misskey/Pleroma/Akkoma, and I remember seeing mentions about it to be implemented in Mastodon soonish so perhaps you will be able to search for "Chile" soon on your instance @eniko
Show threadSteven BodzinJul 3, 2023
@geraineon @eniko thanks, I appreciate it! I hope it happens. I have found plenty of interesting stuff on Mastodon but there is a tradition of obscurity by design around here that makes it far less useful than it could be as a professional tool for finding new contacts and facts. My point wasn't to kvetch, but to encourage boosters to admit this system's weaknesses and to mention that there are things still being worked on