Mastodon Culture - Search and Hashtags

 Posted on November 17, 2022  (Last modified on June 13, 2025)  |  Tom Rake

A few days ago I did a series of hashtag searches and found groups of conversations of a bunch of interesting topics. Hashtags add speed and excitement to Mastodon. Given that Mastodon has no global text search except for hashtags and there is a reason for it.

Mastodon was designed with "friction" to slow down the propagation of information. By forcing propagation of post through posts of individuals and the lack of site wide search. Mastodon promote small conversations and not the quick spread of mass outrage

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Adding DISQUS comments.

 Posted on November 16, 2022  (Last modified on June 13, 2025)  |  Tom Rake

Installation of DISQUS for this blog. Updates my disqus account, on my site which has the Beautiful Jekyll Theme uncomment the disqus line in _config.yml and add my Disqus short name from the General Page on my Disqus account. I want to allow comments on this post I add comments: yes to my front matter.

First try

Hope it works.

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"Mastodon, All your base..."

 Posted on November 12, 2022  (Last modified on June 13, 2025)  |  Tom Rake

There is a season…

Taking the back roads so we won't get weighed

We have been building the information super highway for several decades we saw the "Under Construction" part of webpages in the 1990s. Old roads are still remembered and taken when a major bridge is removed things can get dicey. The problems of Musk and Twitter are the disregard for historical solutions to problems. Mastodon is being tested by the masses as a replacement for Twitter, taking up the "tooted" and "federated" rhetoric.

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Where is the algorithm on Mastodon

 Posted on November 7, 2022  (Last modified on June 13, 2025)  |  Tom Rake

Twitter users are running for the exits

On Twitter national security and political view are expressed by many of those I follow, and today many are moving to mastodon. Last night while auditioning mastodon as a Twitter replacement, I was feeling I did not get the information I desired all the posts etc. Mastodon is not heavy on the recommendation engine, if there is one, and you are more in control of what you see in your Home feed. You are the algorithm.

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