Open post Pooterhead Pharms @pooterheadpharm@mastodon.energy · 46mo ago Replying to @eloquence@social.coop <p>The "bookmark" feature (next to the star in the web UI) may be the least loved and mentioned feature in Mastodon, but it's darn useful.</p><p>1) Hm, I might want to read this later. -> Bookmark</p><p>2) What a great picture! -> Bookmark and Fav and Boost!!11</p><p>3) Do I want to follow this account? Let me take a look later. -> Bookmark</p><p>4) I should boost this again sometime. -> Bookmark</p><p>Search (somewhat deliberately) sucks, making bookmarking essential to find stuff again. Use it liberally. :)</p> @eloquence@social.coop Why would search deliberately suck? I see that as a weakness.
Open post Pooterhead Pharms @pooterheadpharm@mastodon.energy · 46mo ago Replying to @eloquence@social.coop @pooterheadpharm@mastodon.energy There's a lot of concern about search being used as a way to target individuals who say certain things. So for example, if I say "trans rights are human rights", a transphobic harasser might have a search running on that phrase to find folks to target. Hence the bias towards using hashtags to make posts discoverable if and when you want them to be. I have mixed feelings about the current approach but I think any iteration will have to take that concern into account. @eloquence@social.coop I'd just like a search capability that helps for inexactitude about name spelling and variances with capitalizations, spacings etc. For starters.