Post AXiAcqacBkyS4Pvfs0 by eniko@peoplemaking.games
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(DIR) Post #APpoQ2vk9f8uEdUMj2 by eniko@peoplemaking.games
2022-11-21T07:33:21Z
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mastodon would do so much better if they'd just call instances "neighborhoods" and said that you should pick your neighborhood based on your interests, so that if you look out your window you'll see your neighbors doing things you find interesting. and that it's okay if you find out you don't like your neighborhood, because you can just move to another one! and all your followers will move with youand then, yanno, make it easier to search for people you wanna follow cause that shit just sucks
(DIR) Post #APpoQ3S0Diwlqga80W by killyourfm@layer8.space
2022-11-21T16:59:37Z
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@eniko This is so straightforwardly brilliant that I can't see it called anything else.
(DIR) Post #APpoQ3wUONKjNEqTWi by eniko@peoplemaking.games
2022-11-21T07:39:37Z
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oh no im going viral on mastodon. check out uhh ... my mastodon profile? https://peoplemaking.games/@eniko
(DIR) Post #AXiAckBZzvNoD2Ab0y by esdin@peoplemaking.games
2022-11-21T07:34:50Z
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@eniko They really need to fix the search for non-federated instances.
(DIR) Post #AXiAcnybu5Nxxy8IM4 by wiredfire@mas.to
2022-11-21T07:52:32Z
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@esdin @eniko search is built as it is intentionally. It limits the ability for trolls and other unsavoury folk from seeking out people they want to attack or conversations they want to “dog-pile” into. It’s a massive benefit of the platform. Hashtags are a good way to find posts & folk with common interests though.
(DIR) Post #AXiAcojP66oeJ61fI8 by eniko@peoplemaking.games
2022-11-21T07:57:16Z
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@wiredfire @esdin i'm not talking about text search i'm referring to finding a profile of someone where you know where their profile lives but you can't add them unless you go to your home instance and search them and then, after waiting sometimes 2 whole minutes, clicking the follow buttonthat's a dogshit interface
(DIR) Post #AXiAcpMkjoI8H8R5cm by jashan@mastodon.social
2022-11-21T08:15:07Z
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@eniko @wiredfire @esdin My experience is quite different: Almost always I find people I look for from other neighborhoods within seconds. Sometimes I do need to type the full name, like an email address. I’ve had one single case where I couldn’t find a person from a neighborhood that I usually find people from. Not sure, maybe that account was too new?
(DIR) Post #AXiAcqacBkyS4Pvfs0 by eniko@peoplemaking.games
2022-11-21T08:18:40Z
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@jashan @wiredfire @esdin i've had like a dozen people i wanted to follow where i had to search their url like 10+ times each because the search kept timing out
(DIR) Post #AXiAcsiUHSSYfPczQ0 by jashan@mastodon.social
2022-11-21T08:21:31Z
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@eniko @wiredfire @esdin I wonder if that’s maybe an issue in your neighborhood? When I returned to here, mastodon.social timed out all the time even with basic things like just starting the app or logging in. Now it’s all smooth. Or it’s the neighborhoods of the people you try to connect with? Maybe they are too remote ;-)
(DIR) Post #AXiCq2bn0u1v1Ftid6 by cnx@larkspur.one
2023-07-15T07:53:15.727909Z
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I like your analogy, @eniko, but no one actually does this IRL:you should pick your neighborhood based on your interests, so that if you look out your window you’ll see your neighbors doing things you find interestingChange it into picking the hood that if you look out of the window you won’t see people walking around with machete and guns, misusing swastika, being high on opioids or openly pedo but nice, friendly folks then it’s suddenly relatable. People tend to have diverse interests and IMHO it’s more important to be surrounded by a lot that one can gets comfy with: there’s the follow button specifically for choosing friends to talk to.I’d even take one step further and claim it’s a bad idea to physically gather people based on certain niche features: the only times it is done intentionally are at university campi (which is temporal) and concentration camps. Doing so creates single points of failure, e.g. if some disaster blocks the road to or wipe out the carpentry town, then survivors lose most of their career connections and the outside world have no where to turn to for wood works.