Post AW7XjY76WLtItfdrBA by wigbert@mastodon.world
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(DIR) Post #AW7OAv6e8yTeU5qAl6 by maegul@calckey.social
2023-05-28T14:18:23.542Z
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Ok, nice little social media experiment, how does the fediverse fare during an earthquake?A midnight earthquake just hit my home city, which basically never gets earthquakes. Probably no damage at all from this one, but we all definitely felt it, which is unusual for us! (Prob ~4 on Richter scale)Where did I go first to check if others felt it? NGL, the place I went last time there was a tremor … Twitter. And to be fair, on the top of my feed were posts from people I follow (who aren’t here) that live in my home city, tweeting about it, including links to official reports. This was very nice, as this time I was scared and thought my apartment building might be in trouble. I quickly check #mastodon and #calckey. Nothing in timelines. Not surprising, I don’t really follow anyone or many that live in the same city as me. Searching, mastodon’s hashtag search does ok, and surfaces a bot or two that also confirm the quake (@lastquake@masto.ai). But not many people, I’m not really finding a conversation. Also searching for something by a hashtag you don’t know exists takes a few steps. This is on an instance with ~50k users. #Calckey’s full text search though (on calckey.social)? Quicker. Just typed earthquake without worrying about hashtags. And better results. More people were brought up, which is kinda what you’re after from social media during an event … reassurance. It was also surprising, as calckey has only ~2k users and therefore smaller visibility of the fediverse, but still gave me more connectivity just through search than my bigger mastodon instance. Which is really an interesting demonstration of how hashtags can be problematic. Plenty of people were reaching out, asking “anyone feel that earthquake?”, they just forgot or didn’t think to use a hashtag, and so couldn’t find me through mastodon. And why would you in a (slightly) nervous situation like that. “Hmmm, is this the best hashtag, do you think people will search for it … I should probably check if it exists first?” … is not a thought goes through your mind.I basically never visit Twitter since I left, but this was a nostalgic little episode. It was nice to see the fediverse wasn’t really behind big social. Though the lack of discovery facilities on mastodon really did show themselves here.
(DIR) Post #AW7Q3t3BaYijzPzoC8 by randulo@mastodon.social
2023-05-28T14:33:42Z
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@maegul @lastquake This is the best argument for instances being regional if not by city. I see that you're doing what I do, boosting your posts from calckey to mastodon 😁
(DIR) Post #AW7Q3tlquURwDwtToe by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2023-05-28T16:04:55Z
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@randulo @maegul @lastquakelocal instances also help retain decentralization.
(DIR) Post #AW7Qwepo8zrZpLr4pE by tedb@gigaohm.bio
2023-05-28T16:14:54.654897Z
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Hello local friend
(DIR) Post #AW7SBUW0tQiO7XEXNg by randulo@mastodon.social
2023-05-28T16:28:42Z
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@wjmaggos @maegul @lastquake I'm not sure I was clear. It would be cool if there were local or regional instances, just as you can follow the guy at WXYZ Podunk County on Mastodon for regional or local things. There are clients like @elk that can do multiple instances. When I was a kid, school closings were announced an AM radio, and morning edition of the newspaper. Today, they're probably on Twitter or Facebook. I hate when the city does a live video on FB.
(DIR) Post #AW7SZjXkfeA5gAbeG8 by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2023-05-28T16:33:05Z
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@randulo @maegul @lastquake @elkif a news org has a website, it should have an instance imo. but I also think we should have lots of local instances for regular people as default options when they decide to check out the #fediverse #socialweb.
(DIR) Post #AW7StgzVryN7YU6mlk by randulo@mastodon.social
2023-05-28T16:36:34Z
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@wjmaggos @maegul @lastquake That would be optimal, and NPR and Axios do have bots on here. As long as they tweet about earthquakes and the bot reposts it all is good. Post News wants as many news agencies, papers, etc to join. So far I'm not sure they're attracting the numbers they'd like, but The Onion is there! 😂
(DIR) Post #AW7W89xpFJ7HKTuRDU by supernovae@universeodon.com
2023-05-28T15:10:55Z
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@maegul @lastquake we’ve had a search patch available for a while and it works great. https://blog.universeodon.com/mastodon-advanced-search-is-here
(DIR) Post #AW7W8Acanjj5MuyzlA by wigbert@mastodon.world
2023-05-28T16:13:19Z
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@supernovae is that available for other instances, too? -> @ruud ?
(DIR) Post #AW7W8BOnuUI5mRXUuG by ruud@mastodon.world
2023-05-28T17:12:58Z
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@wigbert @supernovae I’m currently not planning on installing patches not on the main Mastodon development.
(DIR) Post #AW7XjY76WLtItfdrBA by wigbert@mastodon.world
2023-05-28T17:30:58Z
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@ruud @supernovae … ok, thank you for the answer ;-) I think, some of the Apps have that already or are planning to do so … @ivory, @IceCubesApp, @elk
(DIR) Post #AW8RkqPHaU4JM4L4kq by maegul@calckey.social
2023-05-28T17:16:25.876Z
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@tedb@gigaohm.bio I'm pretty central so I think I was close enough to feel it pretty strongly. My apartment building certainly felt like something serious happened to it (which was the concerning bit, as if it weren't a quake then it was probably more serious).
(DIR) Post #AW8Rkr4P7axhPbZuqm by tedb@gigaohm.bio
2023-05-29T03:58:40.104489Z
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The one about 1.5 years ago (maybe earlier) we felt really bad in our apartment near the city. Now I've moved to a larger place (South East) it was more like a truck rumbling up to the building then running into it. Which is what I thought happened initially.No damage or gas leaks here.Hope you all fared OK from the building perspective.