Jorge Caballero, MDJul 17, 2023
Mastodon is the best social network for breaking news from trusted sources. I wish the Mastodon Core project would prioritize features such as global search that would make it easier to discover boots-on-the-ground reporters and OSINT (and no, hashtags don't work so spare me the proselytizing)
Show threadRaineer  ðŸ¦†Jul 17, 2023

@DataDrivenMD @lisamelton making good search decentralized is a genuinely difficult problem.

Does my ~100 user instance have to catalog the whole fediverse? Does every single-user instance need to? To be effective it essentially needs to be centralized, and that brings us back to the original problem which created mastodon so many years ago.

Show threadRaineer  ðŸ¦†
@DataDrivenMD and now that I stated that, you can see where hashtags come in. It certainly is not perfect, but a self-labeling of critical search terms by the author is sure easier than every instance full-text-indexing every toot from every other instance
Jul 17, 2023 at 6:32amWeb