social media

Explore Hashtags Across Mastodon Instances With MastoWindow

Facebook Facebooks, TikTok TikToks, and Twitter does whatever it’s doing. The shakeup in the Silicon Valley social media world has plenty of people looking for alternatives, including the decentralized platform Mastodon. But if you’re used to a centralized social media environment, you might find Mastodon daunting. Which server should you…

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Mastodon Web Space Search

Mastodon Web Space Search Since it’s a decentralized social network, Mastodon is more difficult to search than a centralized platform like Twitter. But that doesn’t mean it’s not searchable. Every instance is a domain, after all, and domains are searchable via Google’s site: search. Mastodon Web Space Search lets you…

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Quickly Get Reliable Sources, Social Networks, and News From Wikipedia With MegaGladys

There’s so much news going on these days that it’s hard to keep up, so I decided I needed something to give me a quick backgrounder on a person/place/thing, provide me with links to credible information, and offer pointers to possible news events in the last couple of years. My…

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Make Hashtag RSS Feeds for Seven Popular Mastodon Instances With Resstodon

The Mastodon network, part of the larger Fediverse, has its own challenges when it comes to curating content and information monitoring. There isn’t a centralized location to search as there is for Twitter. Instead there are literally tens of the thousands scattered across the world. On the other hand, Mastodon…

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