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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 12:56:50 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   I think one of biggest strikes against Mastodon for me is that search doesn't really seem to function (or I'm too dumb to figure out how to use it properly). Very early on on Birbsite I started using searches to find people talking about DOS, where I would either RT or jump into conversations. This seems impossible here, so I'm being a lot more quiet. (I'm sure something a few people are grateful for.)

   • lashman (lashman@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 12:57:52 UTC lashman

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     @dosnostalgic there is no plain text search, no (by design)

     BUT you can search for hashtags and you should definitely use those in your toots too, that's how people will find the awesome stuff you post and engage with it :)

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 13:01:35 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • lashman

     @lashman Tags are fine, but people done use tags when they just talk about stuff.

   • lashman (lashman@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 13:06:17 UTC lashman

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     @dosnostalgic well, i guess they will just have to learn how to add hashtags to their posts. No plain text search is for privacy reasons, so i'm pretty sure that will never change. But once people realize that using hashtags doesn't hide their posts from "the algorithm" (like on :birdsite:), i'm sure they'll start using them more, only a matter of time really

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 14:50:01 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Not Joe

     @joe Would the search function work any differently if I was on a different instance?

   • Not Joe (joe@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 14:50:02 UTC Not Joe

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     @dosnostalgic being on mas soc probably isn't helping that

   • Aeva (aeva@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 16:26:17 UTC Aeva

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     @dosnostalgic an exception to the "you can only search hashtags" rule is you can plain text search people you follow, so just follow everyone on mastodon and then you'll be able to sea lion to your heart's content!

   • Deadly Headshot (dheadshot@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 18:19:08 UTC Deadly Headshot

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     @dosnostalgic Search for other people's toots requires them to use hashtags. If they don't use a hashtag, it's considered they don't want the toot to be found.

   • Katie Parsons (piecesofkate@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 21:27:16 UTC Katie Parsons

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     @dosnostalgic I've found this too. I'm looking forward to being able to follow favourite hashtags (something a lot of the servers don't support just yet, I'm told).

   • MDK (mattdkerr@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 22:16:11 UTC MDK

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     @dosnostalgic lately the bird search barely works