@lps @FediTips Thank you for a starting point!
One more question: Any idea where to look for mastodon #iOS app advanced search operators? Search results have not only not been few but also not relevant.
Especially #grateful to the fellow fediverse folk who #tag posts and #caption images - every small improvement in #accessibility & #usability creates fertile ground for normalizing #searchability !
@njsg @feditips there are those communities under a.gup.pe.
One can however seperate them below and most clients will then put them in a seperate section.
#Hashtags #NecessaryEvil #Fediverse #Community #Searchability #UI #UX #Accessibility #ActivityPub #Search #Findability
Dear @realcaseyrollins @evanprodromou @silverpill @eugen , if i don't here from u, this will be the last post on this subject i'll tag u in, thanks.
@k
> Why would an organic farmer open an account here where no one will ever see them? (.....) The only big brands will be from Threads
That's defeatist mentality.
The aim in my OP is for a :butterfedyA: fediverse that is able to replace big tech media completely. if we want to get rid of those centers of mass-intoxication, pillage and destruction (includes Threats, ex-twit, blue'sigh', minds[.]com) we need to imagine what non-techies will want from it. They will very likely want to be able to microblog as their small business.
Look closely and many techies on :butterfedyC: fediverse blend personal #microblogging with their business, and this is great, but many people have good reasons for not wanting to tie themselves to a physical store location, ie. think #privacy for example.
that's why i dont believe its bad for, say, an 'organic corner store' to have an account on fedi.... people often know who is behind an account even if they dont publicly adverise it in the feed. So i think it's troubling when so many instances have signup pages that are so hostile to all businesses. It sends a signal that fedi is a hostile place, when really we just hate ads. @sun produced a little list of business types in his reply and i think this might be key to helping people control their feeds....
....while the default might be: Hide publicly-traded corporations and their subsidiaries, some ppl might opt to hide ALL business accounts, giving them an experience similar to today.
I just dont believe that all fedi instances with hostile terms & conditions towards companies REALLY want to deny others their yums. If someone LOVES nintendo (a publicly traded co), they'd find it if they search it.... it just wont appear in the feed by default. Fedizens that object to something, say, nintendo are doing, will benefit from nintnedo being on fedi because they can similarly, find nintendo and ask them to stop persecuting some engineer or whatever. Win AND win.
As fedizens we are failing when we attack small businesses, which are a backbone of society. When fedizens conflate small businesses with multinational conglomerates on the stock market (ie. publicly traded companies) running aggressive ad campaigns, it ensures that fediverse remains less relevant to societies, and therefore less relevant in general.
Having said all this I dont believe this is the biggest issue affecting :butterfedyA: fediverse. The biggest issue is content delivery becoming centralized (cloudflare, amazon, fastly, bunnyCDN). The dependence on big tech to provide the media needs to be solved immediately.... i talk about this in the tag (#)DCN. I think a lack of a fedi "Marketplace" and the hostility towards small business does need to be addressed at some point AFTER (#)DCN. Addressing it could be as simple as providing the drop down menu that again @sun provided, and then giving folk the ability to filter their feed accordingly. A subsequent #Marketplace function, which is why many people are unable to fully leave falsebook, will likely grow out of hashtags and/or efforts like "grup.pe". I doubt we need to make anything particularly new for a Marketplace-style experience aside from improving #hashtag #searchability.
draft - idea - an option in mastodon settings to
"Make my mastodon posts searchable across the fediverse without hashtags"
This could appease both sets of people
Those who want to continue using mastodon only with their posts searchable via hashtags
And
Those who want their posts to potentially reach a broader audience who may search without hashtags
Also, enables searching with quotes and pairs or sets of words and sentences that are disconnected with the space button, something that is impossible with hashtags
#mastodon
#mastodonsearch
#searchability
#accessibility
#mastodongrowth
Many communities are moving to platforms like #Telegram or #Discord, but these platforms are not #searchable, limiting #AI development. Big Tech should support open protocols like #ActivityPub to promote #inclusivity and #data-driven AI development while maintaining #searchability and #accessibility of public communication.
microsoft teams web:
on the web version of microsoft teams, the search function doesn't seem to do anything / doesn't seem to work. anyone else?
#microsoftteams
#microsoftteamssearch
#search
#searchability
#cloudchat
#googlechat
#slack
#communication
#friends
#family
#teams
draft - does Microsoft teams have a way to search one individual conversation or is there just the main search thing that searches all the convos at once?
#microsoftteams
#techsupport
#msteamschat
#searchability
#teamssearch
#msteams
#microsoft
draft - Google chat has a "search in conversation" function. I know Microsoft teams has a search bar that I guess searches *all* your chats, but, does Microsoft teams have something analogous to "search in conversation" that Google chat has?
#microsoftteams
#googlechat
#microsoftteamschat
#slack
#msteamschat
#msteamschatsearch
#livingdoc
#livingdocument
#searchability
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@epsi +9001%
#Discord also has unacceptable #ToS and is purposefully designed with neither #searchability, #indexability or #accessibility in mind.
Replacing #IssueTracker, #Support and/or (effectively non-existing) #Documentation with a shitty Discord instance is just blatant assholeism and everyone who does even consider doing so in lieu of #GitHub, #GitLab or god forbid even #Savannah and #SpurceForce should be banned from #FLOSS #Project and #CommunityManagment!
Will you need to be a librarian to find the new Twitter on Google? By @DrBeth
Reposting a critical tip regarding #searchability from @feditips@mstdn.social - particularly aimed at MSM outlets that simply tag their articles with #press.
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/108380464458646658
"Do you want your posts to be seen by as many people as possible on here?"
If so, it's important to use hashtags. Hashtag searches are the main way people find posts on the Fediverse. If a post doesn't have hashtags, people probably won't see it in search results.
Don't worry about using too many tags! As long as they are relevant, it is fine to have lots of tags. Many put a long list of them at the end of the post.
Also, if you are using tags, it's important to set the post's visibility to "Public" so that the post appears in search results.
On Mastodon you can set a post's visibility by clicking the visibility icon at the bottom of the post when you're writing it (the icon looks like a globe 🌐 , lock 🔒 or @ sign).
You can set your default post visibility by logging in through the website and going to Preferences > Other > Posting Privacy, select the default you want and click "Save Changes".
#FediTips #MastoTips #Fediverse #Mastodon #Visibility #Hashtags #Tags
as a #leftist #activist and #contentcreator who has struggled for years with rampant #censorship, #banned and #suspended accounts, etc on mainstream platforms (always and only for the heinous unforgivable sin of "female-looking nipples"), places like Mastodon and peertube are the closest I can come to posting anything without having to share a platform with nazis, antivaxxers, etc (assuming I join am instance that defederates from servers that do).
yet it's hard not to be frustrated with how few users there are on these alternative platforms, how clunky and limited the #searchability is, and especially among recent #twitter converts, how little patience the average user has for scrolling chronologically rather than have algorithms decide what posts are "more important" (more likely to cause further engagement") and show them at the top.
I want to ask this question is everyone, but again, especially among #twittermigration accounts-
when you come across a post that has a content warning you have to expand to read the rest of, truthfully, how often do you expand it?
option clarification due to poll character limits-
TM: recent Twitter migrant, aka only started using the #fediverse in the last half-year or so
non-TM: someone who has regularly used the fediverse for more than a year
auto-expand: an option on some apps that will automatically expand any CW. I have this enabled on mine, though I wish it allowed turning off auto expand on certain filters--like expanding most posts, but NOT explicit porn by the various sex workers I follow on here 😅
please feel free to elaborate on your answer in a reply!
Contra title & disclaimer, this post is both fairly clear if you have pretty basic tech knowledge & not particularly long - gets right to the points, on #searchability on the #ActivityPub #Fediverse (& particularly on #Mastodon).
