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 @inquiline really enjoyed this, in so many ways! Great to have an analysis of, and a term for; #LossyDistribution. And the case study works brilliantly. As does the auto ethnographic approach! It’s really important to discuss how #HashtagActivism is curtailed here; as well as how different hashtags in general fare here. Thinking also about the #ClimateDiary project. It frustrates me that - as I only realised about a year in - that I can’t see all posts. 1/2 16 comments
 Pauline, I may not be understanding exactly what you're saying, but the crux on here is that you can follow hashtags. Just click on one and the follow button appears at the top. Equally, this reminds me of your mention of wanting to see posts in other languages. Likewise, just follow a hashtag in that language, e.g. 'climat'. Also, you can do as I did when I joined and either pin a post with hashtags, or put them in your bio. Hashtags are the thing.  Yes, you can follow hashtags, but that doesn't guarantee that you'll see everything on the hashtag. You'll see all the posts with that hashtag _which have reached your instance_. There's another kind of thing, I think it's called a group, where you include an @ for a special kind of account and it forwards everything sent to it. With those, because of the proactive forwarding, you _can_ see everything sent using the @. @unchartedworlds @pvonhellermannn @inquiline Ahh.. bugger. I give advice, but don't know what I'm talking about.🙂🙃Thanks for the clarification Jennifer. I'm on a busy server, so I guess that's why it seems to work as I thought. As I understand it, if you follow someone on a specific server, then that will mean that posts on it are included in your feed. Is that correct? https://a.gup.pe seems to be the main Groups place at the moment. Uhhh.. Pauline.. there's no ClimateDiary group! @gsymon @unchartedworlds @inquiline good point .. i guess i need to work out how to set that up. Everything on mastodon is so much work! I really noticed lack of reach and #LossyDistribution when I searched #Eurocentrism a few weeks ago. I only saw about 5 posts, half my own. It really can’t be the case that noone ever uses it. Depressing enough that noone in my network ever talks about it, as Mastodon so incredibly eurocentric. @gsymon @unchartedworlds @inquiline Btw I wasn’t looking for posts in other languages (i get quite a few), i just meant having connection to people from the Global South. That was for me the mostvaluable part of Twitter, that direct learning. These voices and connections are almost totally absent here. Here I struggle that so many people seem to be super comfortable in their little European bubble, never thinking about colonialism and the origins of all their comfort and privilege. @pvonhellermannn @unchartedworlds @inquiline Fediverse is indeed complex, but the advantages for those of us who abhor autocratic control, are worth the cost.. well for me they are. Wondering about accessing non-federated servers.. If you created a User on a server in a global south region, adding hashtags / following accounts, then followed this new account, from your current account, would it be an effective way of expanding connections? The new account would effectively just be a 'link'. @pvonhellermannn @unchartedworlds @inquiline Of course, if you just explore some of these servers and follow someone on them, then that should 'link' you to the server as well. @pvonhellermannn @unchartedworlds @inquiline You're probably sitting watching the thirsty, but wary giraffe 😊(truly beautiful and illustrates the incredible privilege of our modern world, to be able to see such things) I came across the giraffe whilst looking at fedi-servers in Africa. It was boosted by this account: @gsymon @unchartedworlds @inquiline @AfricaUnion 😄 I can’t see any giraffes, but have followed @AfricaUnion! @pvonhellermannn @unchartedworlds @inquiline @AfricaUnion Ahh... I 'boosted' it ... and it was AfricaUnion that had already boosted it. @pvonhellermannn @unchartedworlds @inquiline @AfricaUnion Get a cup of tea! It's a ~12min watch! 😊 @gsymon @inquiline yes, i know you can follow & search hashtags. But even when you do that, you do not see all posts with that hashtag in the fediverse, you only see posts by people you or others on your server are connected to (I think the connection can be a boost, but maybe it’s following). When i learned this I initially thought i would still see most #ClimateDiary posts as most of us connected, but i can’t be sure - if people i am not connected to use it I won’t see it.  @gsymon @pvonhellermannn @inquiline tip: make sure to click on any hashtags you put in your bio; and follow.  @pvonhellermannn Thanks, Pauline. And yes I can see exactly why this resonates for you also. And it's so nonintuitive until you've been on here a while, and then it's disappointing. At the same time I do understand the virtues of federation/things being arrayed as they are. |
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@inquiline 2/2 this should really be changed at systemic level, but in the interim, might asking people to boost at least one post with a hashtag before using it themselves help? As far as I understand it, a connection and hence visibility is there once there has been a boost; or is it only following eaxh other? I have forgotten. #LossyDistribution