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nicky
@nicky

[never tags my posts or goes browsing through tags] ugh why is discoverability IMPOSSIBLE on here


kukkurovaca
@kukkurovaca

I totally understand why not being searchable is important to many users, but sometimes it would be nice to find a thing

(I have previously threatened to start putting the entire text of all my posts in the tags to achieve this lol)


kukkurovaca
@kukkurovaca

If I compare Cohost and Mastodon to Twitter, if we exclude the specific friends I care about that happen to be there, the fact that I can just fucking search for things on Twitter is the thing I miss.1

This is a significant part of why Lemmy is at least potentially exciting to me. It is possible to search for things there, and because it's organized around communities, things are actually at least a little bit discoverable.

This also reduces a particular kind of stress I experience that is related to time and social media, which is the big reason why I bailed on almost all of the discords I used to be in. The more that chronological (or, yuck, algorithmic) timelines are the only way to experience things, the more I feel like I have to always be looking at the thing, or that I have to catch up on the thing.

If I don't see something on Mastodon or Cohost because I wasn't online during the two hours around when it was posted, odds are that unless it goes "viral" and gets reposted a ton, I will never, ever see it. So it feels like if I'm going to participate in the space, I have to be "always on" or else maintain a certain weird level of detachment from everything there.


  1. Admittedly the split is like 95% the friends 5% the search


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