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aztecladyBecky Spratford: "Today on the blog I am going to ruffle a lot of feathers as I argue for you to spend less money on bestselling authors as our budgets contract and why if you do not, you are making the problem worse for everyone-- authors and readers"Patrons: ask your local public library to buy books by less-well known authors! Suggest them yourself!As <a href="https://gardenstate.social/@glecharles" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@glecharles</a> said elsewhere, "Stephen King and James Patterson will be okay"<a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discoverability</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a href="https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-buying-power-of-libraries-and-how.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-buying-power-of-libraries-and-how.html</a>

azteclady<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discoverability</a> Via <a href="https://wandering.shop/@EMFaulds" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@EMFaulds</a>: <a href="https://emfaulds.com/a-writers-journal/i-wish-id-written-a-bad-story/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://emfaulds.com/a-writers-journal/i-wish-id-written-a-bad-story/</a>

Public Knowledge Project📰 New news blog post: "Why Metadata Enrichment Matters for the Public Knowledge Project" by PKP Scientific Director and Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) Co-Organizer Juan Pablo Alperin <a href="https://mastodon.social/@juancommander" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@juancommander</a> Learn how and why PKP is deeply involved in efforts, such as COMET, to improve the completeness and accuracy of metadata: <a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/11/metadata-enrichment-initiative/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/11/metadata-enrichment-initiative/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metadata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Metadata</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScholComm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScholarlyPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScholarlyPublishing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discoverability</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a>

petersuberI like this idea for a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LettersToTheEditor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LettersToTheEditor</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/preprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#preprint</a> server. <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-025-10022-y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-025-10022-y</a>"Such a preprint server would offer three major benefits…: format-free ease of swift communication, increased author visibility and accountability, and avoiding the homelessness of unpublished [letters]."PS: I've sent letters to journals that had policies not to publish them, but without saying so anywhere. Once I sent a letter to a new journal that had never received or published one and needed time to think about it. Right now <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> takes up this slack and does a pretty good job. But posting letters as preprints would give authors more space, prevent even published letters from languishing behind <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paywalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paywalls</a>, and offer better opportunities for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PIDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PIDs</a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/metadata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metadata</a>, and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discoverability</a>. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScholComm</a>

petersuberUpdate. Also see:* NIH Plan to Increase Findability and Transparency of Research Results Through the Use of Metadata and Persistent Identifiers <a href="https://osp.od.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Metadata_PIDs.12.16.2024_PDF.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://osp.od.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Metadata_PIDs.12.16.2024_PDF.pdf</a>* NIH Issues New Policy to Speed Access to Agency-Funded Research Results <a href="https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-issues-new-policy-speed-access-agency-funded-research-results" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-issues-new-policy-speed-access-agency-funded-research-results</a>* Introducing the New NIH Public Access Policy <a href="https://osp.od.nih.gov/introducing-the-new-nih-public-access-policy/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://osp.od.nih.gov/introducing-the-new-nih-public-access-policy/</a>h/t <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GaryPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GaryPrice</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discoverability</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Embargoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Embargoes</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Metadata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Metadata</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NIH</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSTP</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PIDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PIDs</a>

grant :blobcatgoogly:is there any projects focused on discoverability in the fediverse?not entirely sure how to search for this 😅 <a href="https://grants.cafe/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> <a href="https://grants.cafe/tags/discover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discover</a> <a href="https://grants.cafe/tags/discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discoverability</a> <a href="https://grants.cafe/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> <a href="https://grants.cafe/tags/lemmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lemmy</a> <a href="https://grants.cafe/tags/pixelfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pixelfed</a> <a href="https://grants.cafe/tags/peertube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#peertube</a> <a href="https://grants.cafe/tags/projects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#projects</a>

Karsten SchmidtSeveral rounds of updates later over the past few days (also in part thanks to some of the feedback received — thank you!), a new version of the thi.ng browser tool is up:<a href="https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/thing-browser/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/thing-browser/</a>New features include:- additional per-project/example links to API docs, live demos, source code - for each tag only the top 10 related tags are shown now to avoid (well, minimize) cognitive overload - dozens of tags have been pruned/merged/replaced (across dozens of package.json files, an ongoing process for the near future...) - glossary/reference link additions - CSS updatesSince this entire tool is also entirely made with <a href="https://thi.ng/umbrella" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thi.ng/umbrella</a> packages, some of these features (e.g. the related tag ranking/sorting) has been implemented & simplified via new additions to the <a href="https://thi.ng/transducers" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thi.ng/transducers</a> package (e.g. the new `sortedFrequencies()` reducer function, just released). Please see the main repo readme (section: "Latest updates") for more...<a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/ReleaseTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReleaseTuesday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/ThingUmbrella" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThingUmbrella</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discoverability</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Exploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Exploration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/FacetedSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FacetedSearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Tagging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tagging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Metadata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Metadata</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Documentation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a>

Karsten SchmidtThis past week I've been doing _a lot_ of work on a new "thi.ng browser" tool (and the associated metadata) to help people exploring the thi.ng universe via a tree-based user interface of tags/keywords (current selection is 750 tags with only ~375 of 500+ projects in total).<a href="https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/thing-browser/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/thing-browser/</a>Each tag shown is a potential entry route. By unfolding nested levels of the tag tree, each branch is creating increasingly narrower tag intersections to filter the list of available packages & examples. At each level, a list of related tags will be shown. Some tags/acronyms have associated glossary entries for further reading (incl. on Wikipedia). Nested tags can be promoted as new main search term (via "open as root"), which might increase the result set again. You can use the fuzzy search input to pre-filter the initial list of tags you're interested in... or use the list of initials as a kinda book index.All this is work in progress! There're no easy or linear ways to consolidate and update the metadata of all these projects, manually assign screenshots/thumbnails, deduplicate language/tags etc. I've already been doing dozens of passes semi-automating keyword updates, but I'm guessing I'm only 1/3rd done... But, I'm already _very_ happy about how this is turning out and hope it will be useful to others as well! For any ideas/feedback[1], please reply here or use the GH discussions...Eventually, I want to include additional levels & information both on the topic/tagging side (e.g. start with a smaller number of use case "macro"-tags) and on the project end (i.e. to unfold projects and their resources/assets).. New or existing users might also find the source code of this tool interesting. No docs/comments added yet, but hoping to address these over the next week![1] ...as always, highly appreciated! <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/ThingUmbrella" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThingUmbrella</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discoverability</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Exploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Exploration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Facets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facets</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Search</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Tagging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tagging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Metadata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Metadata</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a>

petersuber"Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites" <a href="https://digiday.com/media/why-publishers-are-preparing-to-federate-their-sites/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://digiday.com/media/why-publishers-are-preparing-to-federate-their-sites/</a>PS: When will <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicPublishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicPublishers</a> start to do this? For them, it would be all gain, no loss, whether or not their works were <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a>. I might not follow a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/publisher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publisher</a>, since too many of its works would fall outside my areas of interest. But I would definitely follow <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/journals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#journals</a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#book</a> series. I'd also follow <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/tags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tags</a>.<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CurrentAwareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CurrentAwareness</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discoverability</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScholComm</a>

shellsharksFor those new to <a href="https://shellsharks.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> / the <a href="https://shellsharks.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> or those looking to get more out of this awesome network, here are some tips for getting started, general advice, and links to a ton of related resources. This “Starter Pack" also features a ton of awesome <a href="https://shellsharks.social/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infosec</a> / <a href="https://shellsharks.social/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> follow recommendations.<a href="https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/10/20/infosec-mastodon-starter-pack" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/10/20/infosec-mastodon-starter-pack</a>Let me know your own tips/tricks and please share out / boost if you find these useful!<a href="https://shellsharks.social/tags/tips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tips</a> <a href="https://shellsharks.social/tags/mastotips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastotips</a> <a href="https://shellsharks.social/tags/discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discoverability</a> <a href="https://shellsharks.social/tags/welcome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#welcome</a> <a href="https://shellsharks.social/tags/resources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#resources</a> <a href="https://shellsharks.social/tags/follow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#follow</a> <a href="https://shellsharks.social/tags/mondayblogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mondayblogs</a>

pieceofthepie :coffefied:As I scroll through my feed seeing the same old faces (love y'all) I've come to the realisation that my subscribed hashtags are doing very little. Guess that's a "running my own" instance thing. 😢I've got relays, but those seem to be mostly made up of other small instances. relay.fedi.buzz could have helped but doesn't seem to add anything new. <a href="https://social.n8e.dev/tags/Discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discoverability</a> seems hard work if you're not on a big instance. My posts feed up, others don't feed down all that much. <a href="https://social.n8e.dev/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a href="https://social.n8e.dev/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MastoAdmin</a>

shellsharksIf you are in <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infosec</a> / <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> and looking for an easier way to follow interesting infosec accounts that are relatively high signal-to-noise without having to scour the Fediverse, consider checking out the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/mammoth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mammoth</a> Mastodon client and subscribing to the new <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/indiesec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indiesec</a> Smart List! Smart Lists are a unique feature pioneered by Mammoth which offers curated lists of accounts in a number of different subject areas. To start, the IndieSec Smart List (curated by yours truly) features 50 independent security researchers /professionals across many infosec sub-disciplines. I will continue to maintain this list and add new accounts in the coming weeks (I have a whole backlog of accounts I'd like to see added). Over time, this list will seek to feature many accounts that are lower-volume, but high-quality in terms of content. Surfacing harder-to-find accounts (by doing hours of scrolling and curation) is one more way we as a community are improving <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discoverability</a> across the network.Thanks to the <a href="https://moth.social/@mammoth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mammoth</a> team and <a href="https://moth.social/@bart" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bart</a> for working with me on this new list. If you have any questions about the list feel free to drop me a message!Edit: I should add - you can see everyone who is featured on this list here <a href="https://github.com/shellsharks/assorted/blob/master/resources/mammoth-indiesec.csv" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/shellsharks/assorted/blob/master/resources/mammoth-indiesec.csv</a>. When new accounts are added, they too will be represented there.

Magpieblog' Requiring an email address to read our articles has, for the moment, stopped our content from being scraped and repurposed by AI. It will also, we hope, serve as a preventative measure against the impacts of the internet being flooded by all of this AI-generated drek. We are worried that a flood of low-quality, AI-generated bullshit ... is going to drown out what we do, and make it harder to ... find our work.'<a href="https://mas.to/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ContentScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ContentScraping</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/404Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#404Media</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discoverability</a> <a href="https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/</a>

petersuberAn important new project: <a href="https://sparcopen.org/news/2023/us-repository-network-launches-pilot-to-enhance-discoverability-of-open-access-content-in-repositories/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://sparcopen.org/news/2023/us-repository-network-launches-pilot-to-enhance-discoverability-of-open-access-content-in-repositories/</a>"In November, the US Repository Network (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USRN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USRN</a>) will launch a pilot project aimed at improving the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discoverability</a> of articles in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/repositories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#repositories</a>. This pilot project involves the use of services from <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CORE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CORE</a>, a not-for-profit aggregator based at Open University in the UK."<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GreenOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreenOA</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OAintheUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OAintheUSA</a>

Julia :v_bi::therian:?I am <a href="https://eepy.moe/tags/begging" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#begging</a> people to <a href="https://eepy.moe/tags/stop" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stop</a> <a href="https://eepy.moe/tags/writing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writing</a> their posts like <a href="https://eepy.moe/tags/this" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#this</a>. It doesn't help <a href="https://eepy.moe/tags/discoverability" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discoverability</a>, it just harms <a href="https://eepy.moe/tags/readability" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#readability</a>.

petersuberUpdate. See some new comments on the previous article (this thread). <a href="https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/machine-translation-a-game-changer-in-science/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/machine-translation-a-game-changer-in-science/</a>"The real benefit of machine translation lies elsewhere, said [Vincent] Larivière. 'In an ideal world, the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/metadata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metadata</a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/abstracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#abstracts</a> and titles of scientific articles would be available in [many] languages, increasing their <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discoverability</a>…Readers could then choose to translate the text into any language they want. We wouldn’t always have to use English.' "<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Multilingualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Multilingualism</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MultilingualResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MultilingualResearch</a>

testingsome serious criticism of mastodon: <a href="https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/</a> <a href="https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fediversenews@venera.social</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/twittermigration" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#twittermigration</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/discoverability" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discoverability</a>

Cragsand :verified_coffee:<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@excog" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@excog</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/@FrostPoem" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@FrostPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@welshpixie</a> I think a lot of it stems from Mastodon users wanting to be searchable and discoverable but the only way to opt-in to this is unfortunately by using a lot of hash-tags. If toots were searchable this wouldn't be necessary.The <a href="https://universeodon.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://universeodon.com</a> instance has implemented a custom feature for searching text in posts which I've been trying out and it's great. I'm all for discoverability without having to use hashtags as long as it respects those who choose not to be.I'm hoping to see adoption of a way to fulltext search being implemented soon. 😊 It's being discussed over on GitHub. <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21627#issuecomment-1332768678" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21627#issuecomment-1332768678</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/searching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#searching</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#search</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/hashtags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hashtags</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/hashtagsearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hashtagsearch</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discoverability</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/discover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discover</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/mastodonsearching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastodonsearching</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/finding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#finding</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/hashtag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hashtag</a>

FogA long toot for this <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FollowFriday</a>, my first one on this instance.I find that <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a>’s coverage is surprisingly good on a number of topics. With more people joining by the day, it is getting better very rapidly.I would like to mention a few here: - <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#photography</a>, especially <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/naturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#naturephotography</a> - <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astrophysics</a> - <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sustainability</a> - <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> and the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#war</a> with <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Russia</a>I’m happy to recommend specific accounts here. I would suggest, if you are interested in any of those <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/subjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#subjects</a>, that you first run <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/followgraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#followgraph</a> on my main handle (fog@newsie.social), to identify the relevant ones.If you don’t know followgraph, have a look at this fantastic tool, which was created by <a href="https://mastodon.online/@gabipurcaru" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@gabipurcaru</a> to enhance <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discoverability</a>: <a href="https://followgraph.vercel.app/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://followgraph.vercel.app/</a>There are others areas, for which I need to spend more time to identify interesting accounts. -<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecture</a>, particularly <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#modernism</a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/contemporary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemporary</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/architects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architects</a>. <a href="https://photog.social/@concretelibraries" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@concretelibraries</a> is great. Do you have others you like?- <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#arts</a>, notably <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/finearts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#finearts</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/museums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#museums</a> and current <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/exhibits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#exhibits</a>. There is <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@NationalGallery" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@NationalGallery</a>. A number of famous painters have their own bot, broadcasting images of their work, often without context. Who else would you recommend?- <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cinema</a>: I have a couple of good handles on the history of the 7th art: <a href="https://mstdn.social/@Cinematologists" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Cinematologists</a>, <a href="https://piaille.fr/@cinemaetpol" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@cinemaetpol</a> (in French), <a href="https://mastodon.nz/@MoviesSilently" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@MoviesSilently</a>. I could use more, notably on <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/currentmovies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#currentmovies</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/directors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#directors</a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/actors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#actors</a>.-<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jazz</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#music</a> I’ve recently discovered a few good handles for <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/classicalmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#classicalmusic</a>. I would love suggestions for jazz and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/blues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blues</a>.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FF</a>

HughsterI've noticed a lot of complaints about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/discoverability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discoverability</a> here are from accounts who never use <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hashtags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hashtags</a> in their posts. Do give that a go first!Think of it not necessarily as trying to join a specific trend or discussion (as on Twitter) but simply marking what topics you're talking about so others beyond your own followers can join in.

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