I'll try submitting the same, sure.
I am suspicious that the search URL will only be indexing kbin.social and not the greater kbin/lemmy universe which is not good. But it's a !kbin bang and the !msocial bang goes to mastodon.social so I guess it makes sense.
I'd much rather see a !kbin search that returned results from all kbin instances it has indexed, and a !lemmy search that does the same for lemmy instances, or a !fediforum search that returned results from both. But it's a start!
Very cool, I didn't know they added !msocial.
Seems it only searches tags, which seems appropriate for Mastodon.
I feel like there is a huge difference in expectations of discoverability with this UI versus Mastodon, which makes full text search a non-question here whereas on Mastodon it was a (often ill-informed but well-intentioned) argument about privacy.
On Mastodon you can opt-in to have your posts indexed by Google, hopefully kbin/lemmy can rely on DDG or Google to do the full-text search for us with a flag on robots...?
hmm, but when I looked under the #mosstadon tag from within Mastodon, I don't see any of these. Something isn't quite talking yet.
there's a set of posts like this
https://toot.wales/@Knittingdancer/110283413448659149
I thought that the microblog/tag search stuff would share individual posts "microblogs" or whatnot between the tools. And ideally pixelfed so we can get #mosstadon posts originating from instagram style systems.
I love #mosstadon (do mastodon tags do anything in posts on kbin I wonder?).
I love how many mastodon posts are people taking pretty pictures of moss or mushrooms or birds.
Nah, no idea. I suppose it doesn't really matter really, just curious if it's a bug or a misunderstanding. I can't really find any documentation about it so probably best to ignore it.
Yeah, it'd just be nice if it lost all that value before going public and ended up a loss for the VCs instead of retirees.
okay by their rules (what many of us just left Reddit over)
People are leaving Reddit over their moderation rules? I thought the CEO did something with the API.
But I mean, yeah, people who have compatible instance rules will federate and the people on those instances will have agreed to those rules. I think you might be overestimating how restrictive typical rules are, unless you think transphobia being called "not okay" is too restrictive.
Doesn't that result in the general public owning shares that gradually decrease in value while the current owners make money at the current value? Seems like index funds will be paying for it unless the actual amount the Reddit owners sell it for goes down before the sale.
Satisfying I guess, but frustrating that the people that did the damage get a payout while the public holds the bag while it deflates.
I suggest that you don't worry very much about how many people read your posts, especially in early days. I've seen people super stressed about how they can't make their posts on Mastodon go viral enough. The scale here will be smaller.
Of course in a magical world all the different basically the same magazines on different instances would get merged seamlessly in the UI with posts all somehow connected.
In the real world I can't even conceptualize how you could handle moderation (or a random collection of posts vanishing from a thread) with instances that have different rules unless each magazine for different topics was a separate silo.
The natural outcome, without much active effort, seems likely to be that niche stuff is consolidated on a single instance that members aren't necessarily on in order to have enough participation while popular stuff truly just gets silo'd into different self-sustaining groups that talk about the same stuff but with different culture developed, different moderators, and a different instance.
Is there another way? We're assuming each one is self-sustaining, it will be good enough or you'll find one on a different instance...
I expect people will see there's existing local magazines for a bunch of things, and then to search out magazines for niche interests.
I wonder to what extent the massive imbalance in news coverage was simply super wealthy families handing journalists pre-written pieces so that laziness would dictate this result (rather than the journalists doing this naturally, although laziness is natural enough I guess).