Feedback is extremely welcome. This is a loving document, it can only be honed and get better with loving input from other users. What are your best tips for #creators?
@AimeeMaroux You don't happen to have a guide on how to convince fellow creatives to come over from the old site do you? All of the old numismatic community I used to have great interaction with there... Just won't move... I think because the others there haven't moved (clearly I do not have enough pulling power to prompt them to action). It is disheartening although a tiny new community is very slowly starting here
@CoinOfNote Sadly, I don't. I haven't been very successful with bringing people over, unfortunately. Not even with people who should know better than to trust a corporate platform because they are NSFW creators. Most have flocked to BlueSky which... I honestly don't get it. There are no features, I can't even make lists of people I am interested in, so I keep missing my friends' posts.
I think the best we can do is help make a great first impression for those who DO give Mastodon a try 😐
@AimeeMaroux At least the poor search is slowly starting to improve. Hopefully that will help both with new users and with those of us already here to connect.
@CoinOfNote I feel like the search is pretty good already. And there were some cool features on the roadmap. What I personally miss the most right now are quote toots and a way to see hashtags across all instances.
@taoish@CoinOfNote I cannot manually QT if I want to show off an artist's work without reposting their art.
Also I never said I don't get results from other instances?
But my topic is rather niche and it would be nice to see ALL results for a hashtag. Especially for events happening in real time like Eurovision etc. For small instances, such a service would be super helpful.
My personal use case aside: it is not helpful if someone says "I wish feature Y would exist here" to reply...
@taoish@CoinOfNote ...with an unhelpful comment that essentially boils down to "well, I don't have any issues".
Sorry, but this is exactly the kind of behaviour why people leave Mastodon.
Listen to new people instead of insisting that everything is perfect as it is.
@AimeeMaroux@CoinOfNote
Wow, what a harsh response. Allow me to expand:
"Do you mind saying more about what is going wrong? I seem to get hashtag results from other servers, but now I am concerned that I'm missing a lot of results bc obviously I can't know what I'm not seeing. Do you get zero results ever from other servers? Or do you get some but know that others are missing? I'm trying to understand what the issue might be (for both of our sakes)."
@taoish@AimeeMaroux The way search works on Mastodon is that I will results from Historians.social (the server I'm on) & the others that this one knows about, the servers of people I follow & those on instances others on my server follow, The smaller server you are on, exponentially the fewer servers it knows about. Any server can only find out about what it already knows about, unless YOU find something yourself through a friend's friend and follow them. At least, I think that's how it works?
@CoinOfNote@AimeeMaroux
Interesting, thank you. So it sounds like there isn't much an individual user can do except to make sure that you are on a bigger server?
@taoish@CoinOfNote You can search other instances, I think, so you could look up the hashtag on a bigger instance. Or a niche instance if it fits the search well. But the way federation works the only thing an individual user can do is following lots of people from lots of different servers.
@AimeeMaroux@CoinOfNote Wow, what a confusing yet interesting fact! So if I just follow people on different servers, I accidentally get wide coverage on my hashtag searches!? Never would have guessed that in a thousand years.
@taoish@CoinOfNote I'm sorry, I thoroughly misread your message ❤️
On mastodon.social, I rarely get zero results but when I was on smaller instances it was a much bigger issue. I'm co-hosting the MythologyMonday hashtag on thefolklore.cafe and when we first started out, there were quite a few posts that didn't show up (but did show up when I searched from my personal account on mastodon.social).
Mastodon instances only get search results of instances they know, so a 3rd party crawler would be 👍
@AimeeMaroux@CoinOfNote I apologize for not being more clear (and gracious). I actually thought about adding softening language but I was in a rush. Sorry!
@AimeeMaroux the migration has been easy for me as the useful and likeable Twitter was gone since 2012 or 2015 maybe? But while I am here since many years, it’s only a couple of months that I started to get some echoes !
@nautilebleu I only joined Twitter in 2018 but it still was incredibly valuable to me. It had become much less so even before Musk bought it, never showing me what my fellow erotica writers were doing and I got a lot less engagement on my tweets.
@AimeeMaroux yes in the last months I use it (during the Covid), I often have only one only like. I thought it was because I suck at socialising as I am interested by sharing my content but not much spending tons of time creating relations with other people. In a certain way, I am happy to learn that it was not just me !
@nautilebleu I mean, on Twitter and on Mastodon both it helps to interact with people to be seen. But I've heard of the drop in engagement from other NSFW writers too, it's not just you or me.
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