Notices by switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at), page 36

@Tchambers @nik @Gargron

I'm wondering how many of the social problems we face on social media are down to lack of friction. It is so easy to get overwhelmed with people/posts to respond to and information to analyse.

Humans perhaps aren't equipped to deal with this kind of situation. We have previous normally had up to 150 people we deal with in real life, and maybe a few dozen tv channels/newspapers/radio stations to sift through. Now we have millions of people and millions of channels 😱

@Tchambers @nik @Gargron

Twitter is designed to encourage interactions at all costs, especially thoughtlessly provocative interactions. People see something that outrages them incredibly easily (thanks to full text search, algos, trends etc), they reply instantly and the merry cycle begins again.

Mastodon puts a bit more friction in the system (hashtag search, no algo, no trends), and hopefully so encourages more thoughtful actions. It's less convenient to find stuff, but that's the point?

@faoluin

You do already get full text results for your own posts, your favourites and replies to you.

It's only other people's posts that you have no connection to that require hashtags.

If you want people to find your public posts on Mastodon or the rest of the Fediverse, there's something important you need to know:

📣 USE HASHTAGS!

For privacy reasons, the only way to search for posts on here is by hashtag. If you don't include tags, no one will see your post in searches.

Hashtags have to be spelt exactly, so #MastoTip and #MastoTips would bring up two separate sets of results. Include multiple tags if you're not sure.

More MastoTips:
https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/tagged/mastotips

#Mastodon

@dentangle

Also, it helps to keep conversations on topic because you can only find the conversation through that topic's hashtag.

@dentangle

Hashtag-only searches is to prevent trolls from looking for trouble.

If you have full text search, people who frequently get bullied/trolled will have to start avoiding the words that the bullies/trolls flock to (for example homophobes search for "LGBT" etc).

By using hashtags, it means that you're only joining in public conversations that you actively want to take part in.

@dentangle

Hashtag-only searches is to prevent trolls from looking for trouble.

By using hashtags, it means that you're only joining in public conversations that you actively want to take part in.

If you have full text search, people who frequently get bullied/trolled will have to start avoiding the words that the bullies/trolls flock to (for example homophobes search for "LGBT" etc).

@nik @Tchambers

It's important for communicating with other people on here.

If you don't use Hashtags, people will not find your posts.

@fitheach

By the way, did you try Kdenlive?

Curious to know opinions of someone who has tried all these recently.

If you want people to find your public posts on Mastodon or the rest of the Fediverse, there's something important you need to know:

📣 USE HASHTAGS!

For privacy reasons, the only way to search for posts on here is by hashtag. If you don't include tags, no one will see your post in searches.

Hashtags have to be spelt exactly, so #MastoTip and #MastoTips would bring up two separate sets of results. Include multiple tags if you're not sure.

More MastoTips:
https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/tagged/mastotips

#Mastodon

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@ChrisTalleras

Yes, if a profile appears blank to you try clicking on its profile picture to open it on its own instance.

If you follow it, future posts from that account will appear on your instance too.

Goodness what a week... ☀️ :blobmelt: ... time to cool off with #FollowFriday 🍹

:ubuntu: @omgubuntu OMG Ubuntu: Web's largest Ubuntu Linux news site

🌐 @manyver_se Manyverse: Free open peer-to-peer social network without any servers

🎮 @godotengine Godot Engine: Free open game engine

🎥 @apertus Apertus: Creating free open camera hardware

🕹️ @GIbiz GamesIndustry.biz: Web's largest gaming industry news site

Previous #FF posts:
https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/tagged/followfriday

@asko @dansup @mastohost

Spacebear do managed hosting for pixelfed instances:

https://app.spacebear.ee

They're on the fediverse at:

@support

@Dayglochainsaw @nextcloud @wallabag

By the way, you can find these and other alternatives listed on switching.social:

https://switching.social

@Dayglochainsaw @nextcloud

Yes! :blobgrin: There's Wallabag:

https://wallabag.org/en

There's an example instance at:

https://www.wallabag.it/en

You can follow them at:

@wallabag