The next best thing to search.
annoying to find things I like.
I’m not talking about “discoverability” in the sense of some tailored suggestion algorithm. I mean that by design, information on Mastodon’s many servers is diffuse and relatively obscure. Back on Twitter, I kept several columns of search terms open — some for serious topics I was covering, some for personal interests like my favorite games, all of them a potential gateway to an interesting new corner of the service.
Mastodon lets you search for hashtags or keep columns open to track them. In addition to basic topic headings like #politics or #music, people write posts with tags like #LawFedi or #lawstodon for legal posts, #introduction for people joining the service, or #CatsOfMastodon for... you probably get the idea.Hashtags, as they appear on platforms like Twitter, Instagram, or Mastodon, are kind of a mess.
like screen readers, both because they add a long list of extra words and because they can render as #longincomprehensibletextstrings if people forget to #CapitalizeEachWord.On top of all that, in-post hashtags feel thirsty. After a decade of Twitter and Instagram, I associate them firmly with spammers and #blessed clout-chasing thinkfluencers, #shoehorning that #pound #symbol into the #middle of #sentences to reach more #eyeballs.
It’s a system I would love to see at least considered for Mastodon, and fortunately, I am not the first person to suggest it. The operator of the popular
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