Post AX0zTEmOntPBFLcgee by nelson@tech.lgbt
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 (DIR) Post #AWxB4xaPUxiFn2MjoW by nelson@tech.lgbt
       2023-06-22T13:58:58Z
       
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       Getting frustrated with Mastodon's tech limitations. Threading doesn't federate reliably; I'm constantly having to "open original page" to see replies. And the lack of any sort of search facility is willfully bad. (The latter does have a partial solution but for some reason few instances use it.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AWxB4yT0DzNiWLuKuG by twylo@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-06-22T15:22:06Z
       
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       @nelson The search limitation is cultural rather than technical. A lot of early Fediverse users were victims of name searching on Twitter and said “we won’t have that here”
       
 (DIR) Post #AWxKa3ay6e54zVWuUC by nelson@tech.lgbt
       2023-06-22T16:25:23Z
       
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       @twylo yes that's what I meant by "willfully bad". Also it doesn't explain why so few servers enable the feature that lets people search their own posts.
       
 (DIR) Post #AX0zTDRnkzKp7AyiuW by nelson@tech.lgbt
       2023-06-23T23:14:37Z
       
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       Found a somewhat usable workaround for searching my own Mastodon posts; download an archive and then use the Meow viewer to search them. There's a bunch of archive viewers, Meow is nice for running in your browser. https://purr.neocities.org/about/
       
 (DIR) Post #AX0zTEmOntPBFLcgee by nelson@tech.lgbt
       2023-06-23T23:17:15Z
       
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       @meowViewer thank you for Meow! I was reluctantly going to write my own thing like this (offline Javascript app) and yours is way better than I could have possibly done.I wonder if it's possible to passively update the browser's copy of the archive? Maybe with an addon watching every time you load your Mastodon timeline?