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in reply to @us3r's post:
Basically,
- the Fediverse is the collection of social media-ish sites which run server software compatible with the ActivityPub protocol
- an instance is kinda sorta like an e-mail server, in that it uses a common protocol but can make its own decisions about rules, which servers it will/won't talk to, so on
- Mastodon is one of the most common ActivityPub-compatible server software packages, using that framework to provide a vaguely Twitter-like experience
- other software, like Misskey, Firefish, glitch-soc, and Pleroma, have fairly Mastodon-like feature sets, but aren't always perfectly compatible with each other
- ~full text search~ lets you search for posts from an instance running software which supports such (say, newer versions of Mastodon) on other instances supporting it (and not blocking it)
do you need to use the tildes on either side of a search term when looking for a full text search? From what I've seen it really wants me to just use hashtags.
I didn't want to spam everyone's page with a bunch of liveblogging of this so this might update a few times.
Oh, the tildes are in a "this is a New Thing that's a bit of a discourse subject over there" sense. fjsgfjsgdhdg The current search model literally doesn't work for anything but hashtags, which is an intentional design choice. (The thought was that it'd make search-based harassment harder.)
Ah. I misunderstood. That does make sense though. If you're looking for whatever content you have to rely on the federation/division you're in or the person that uploads it to hashtag it properly instead of just saying "yeah this is x"
Searched for the largest communist federation on a whim and of all things they made it look like Reddit. The internet was a mistake tbh.