Mastodawn

am asking for help pls, from whizbang expert #sharkey / #misskey / #calckey / #firefish [RIP] users.

my eternal struggle to make my sharkey #antennas behave is continuing, & i seem still to be losing the battle.

i have an #antenna for tracking my geek interests, called "geekery". the full list of its followed keywords is provided further below.

historically this antenna would be plagued by heaps of invalid posts that had nothing to do with any of my topical interests, attracted afaict by my attempts to get posts relating to #Arch, as in #ArchLinux, viz random posts that used the calendar month "March", or discussed "archive" or "archaeology", "architecture", & every other irrelevant variant out there.

last night i discovered https://thefedi.wiki/firefish/user/antennas, & was excited to see an apparent solution, via this example:

Tip You can also use the quotes to be very specific in your search.
For example, if I enter bee I will get posts with the word 'bee', but also 'been' and 'beer'. So use quotes and a space:

“bee ”so i edited my antenna's keywords accordingly:

#aboutconfig
#anonsysnet
"#arch "
#archies
#archinstall
#archlinux
"#aur "
#debian
#distrobox
#dropbearpooterising
#farcebookspace
#fedora
#firefox
#firefoxbeta
#firefoxnightly
#firefoxsecondsidebar
#firejail
#floorp
"#foss "
#fossemojis
#freebsd
#gnucash
#immutable
#kalpa
#kde
#kdelinux
#kdeos
#kdeplasma
#kinoite
#kmymoney
#kvm
#libreoffice
#libvirt
"#linux "
#linuxwomen
#microos
#openbsd
#opensocialspace
#opensuse
#penguinistas
#phanpy
"#plasma "
#qemu
#searx
#searxng
#sengi
#sharkey
#sidebery
#statuzer
#treestyletab
#tumbleweed
#userjs
#virtmanager
"#vm "
#vpn
#wayland
#windowrules
#windscribe
#xfce
" arch "

yet, this antenna still attracts numerous unrelated irrelevant posts, like:
https://blahaj.zone/notes/ajneoti8bb0i051v
https://blahaj.zone/notes/ajndfxrvsgre048b
https://blahaj.zone/notes/ajneh8mc0ovs04z3
https://blahaj.zone/notes/ajnefa540ovs04xu
https://blahaj.zone/notes/ajndxnvsbb0i04mk
https://blahaj.zone/notes/ajndk154ymls04kh

i'd be so grateful if someone pls could advise me what i'm doing wrong 🥺🤞

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Ada Mar 10

@MsDropbear42 Antenna have been re-written since they were implemented on Firefish. They worked really well, but they had a huge resource impact that made them non scalable.

They're more efficient, but dumber now. I don't think they do much with quotes and spaces. I've basically had to resort to using only hashtags in my antenna, unless the word in question is only used in the context I want.

One thing you could try though is instead of " arch ", try arch linux on a single line without quotes That will only show you results for posts that mention both of those words (though they could be anywhere in the post, not always together, so they can still give you false hits). But it would mean that your first couple of results wouldn't have shown up on your antenna for example, because even though they mention arch, they don't mention linux.

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Droppie Mar 10

@ada salutations & ta for helping 🤗 atm am down a whole other wascally wabbit burrow, but later today once i've de-spelunked, i shall try out your suggestions. tis quite sad though to hear that we cannot actually lockdown our keywords via spaces & inverted commas, coz afaict that would have entirely solved my problem [hence my bamboozlement when it didn't seem to help].

when you say

instead of " arch ", try arch linux on a single line without quotesi wonder these two things:

- was my hitherto " arch " just being treated simply as plain old arch, thus capturing all & sundry?
- if arch linux really will capture posts even with both words being non-contiguous, do we simply have no way at all to enforce contiguousness?

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Ada

@MsDropbear42

was my hitherto " arch " just being treated simply as plain old arch, thus capturing all & sundry?I believe this is the case, but I'm not certain.if arch linux really will capture posts even with both words being non-contiguous, do we simply have no way at all to enforce contiguousness? I have yet to find one in the current implementation