Enter the hashtag you want to search across Mastodon (don’t include the #) and click the Submit button. The Instances.Social API will be queried to find the top 100 instances with more than 1000 users and those instances will be queried for your hashtags. Results will (sometimes) be returned in…
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…
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…
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…
PLEASE NOTE: Due to Twitter changes, this Gizmo WILL NOT WORK unless you’re logged in to Twitter. Pam’s Pin takes the address you specify and translates it into a location-based Twitter search URL which opens in a new tab. You can search for tweets in a radius of up to…