Other Social Media - Tech Matters

[Irrev-Black]

Mastodon derivatives will most likely have full text search option soon.

Renaud Chaput
@renchap@oisaur.com

Full text search has been merged in #Mastodon `main` branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta

It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile to be indexed, but this was one of the most wanted Mastodon features for some time.

We plan to deploy it to mastodon.social and mastodon.online in the coming days to have a bit more feedback on it and see how it behaves in the wild.

[Irrev-Black]

As a fairly heavy RSS user, I was glad to learn of this particular feature:

Fedi.Tips
@feditips@mstdn.social

Today, a very niche tip for RSS fans :rss:

As well as Mastodon's built-in hashtag following system, you can also follow hashtags through RSS instead:

1. Search for a hashtag on a Mastodon server's website
2. Add .rss to the end of the URL
3. Use this URL as the feed address for that tag

For example to subscribe to #Dogs on mstdn.social you would use this address in your feed reader:

https://mstdn.social/tags/dogs.rss

#RSS #FediTips #Mastodon #MastoTips

[stylofone]

All the commercial social media platforms nauseate me. They are disgusting engines of degradation and abuse and I don't understand how anyone can use them and contain the contents of of their stomach. On a less personal level, I think there should have been laws in place to stop the evolution of surveillance capitalism, and in an alternative universe, Zuckerberg, Brin and Page, Musk and all the rest would all be in jail, or be fugitives from international justice. So I think this article is a bit understated.

[Irrev-Black]

@stylofone - That article above didn't show up for me., and I had to start a quote reply to see the link.

[stylofone]

@stylofone - That article above didn't show up for me., and I had to start a quote reply to see the link.

Wow, that's weird, I pasted the link and the forum software replaced it with the OG image only, but no link.