I found mine easily enough. You searched with the full name username@domain.tdl?
effingjoe
joined 1 year ago
Yeah, but if I understand how Mastodon functions, you can only search for hashtags.. so people that don't follow you and weren't looking at the federated "all" view when you posted will never be likely to find your post. I am pretty sure Mastodon leans a lot on the use of hashtags to function. I know that I only follow a few people but I follow several hashtags. I don't know if this is a normal use, though.
It's a setting you can turn on/off. I forget what the default is. Off, I think.
I think I'm going to start using them, myself, either way. I'm more concerned about using the mentions in comments. I'm not sure it's considerate to notify every person in a comment chain just because I respond to the last person in the chain-- but I am willing to be convinced that this wouldn't be considered spam and is actually desireable.
It looks like my post shows up on mastodon as a link to this post with the first 350 or so characters shown, as well as (only) the first two hashtags. (#fediverse is not shown on the post on Mastodon).
I somewhat recently ran across VanillaOS, which I have only really had time to install and play around with for a few minutes, but it seems really cool. A very brief overview is that it is a sort-of-but-not-really immutable OS that leans very heavily on containerization to allow you to install packages from any other distro in a seamless-to-the-user way. So you can install an application (cli or GUI) from an ubuntu repo and use it along side an application from an arch repo. It's ubuntu-based, but according to the info on that link, the next release switches to being debian-based.
I mostly use ChromeOS these days-- well, I guess technically I mostly use SteamOS these days-- so I don't have a lot of hands-on experience with VanillaOS, but I found the concept really cool and from a few minutes of playing around with it, it seemed to work pretty well with respect to the containerization stuff.
Steam released an entire Linux OS; I think it's safe to say that Steam is on-board with Linux gaming in general. Everything has bugs. If you're just looking for a reason to justify piracy, then fine, but this seems a little out there. What will you do if Lutris releases with a bug that crashes your system? Switch to Windows? haha
Anecdotal statements from people using Threads suggests otherwise.
Well yes. They can still be made more or less easily accessible.
Only on a server by server basis. The data is being transmitted and received. If a server decides to hide that info, that doesn't necessarily mean that other ActivityPub compatible services will also hide it, let alone services running the same software.
You just need to get used to the idea that a vote is as much a pubic statement as a comment, and act accordingly.
That's pretty neat; I didn't realize that.