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It's been said a lot that tech people tend to think that every problem can be solved with a tech solution, and that that is often a wrong approach that ignores social dynamics and systemic causes.

That's true, but I can think of at least one problem here on the Fediverse that really, really needs a tech solution!

That being hashtags.

The whole point of hashtags is that you can tag your content with concepts it relates to, so that others who are interested in said concepts can discover your content.

Ideally, a hashtag should therefore contain all posts relating to the concept, and should not contain any posts unrelated to the concept. This is not the case.

The problem is that hashtags are plain text only. This causes two kinds of issues:

• False positives: One hashtag is used for multiple separate concepts, grouping unrelated concepts together.
• False negatives: Multiple hashtags are used for the same concept, meaning you might miss posts of a concept you want to see.

Common examples for false positives are homonyms (seating bank vs. financial bank, video games vs. board games), abbreviations (CNC, BBC, MTF), and multilingual issues (German handy vs. English handy).

False negatives are much, much more common, even. You're missing out on synonyms (horses vs. equines), grammatical and regional variations (colouring vs. coloring, horse vs. horses) and scope issues (gaming vs. games vs. video games) at least. Also, the whole thing about 'dogsOfMastodon' versus 'dogs'.

If you add to it that the Fediverse is multi-lingual, this is getting exponentially worse. If a German account posts about dogs using the hashtag 'Hund' (or Hunde, Hundes, Hunds, Hundi, Wauwau, Köter, Welpe, Welpen...), someone subscribed to the English hashtag 'dogs' should probably also see that post.

Rather than plain text which has all of these issues, a hashtag should therefore point at an individual unique ID of a concept, unique and unambiguous across all languages and grammatical forms.

Someone should be able to subscribe to the concept of a horse – the equine animal – and not just the letters 'horse' in that order!

That might sound daunting – who has a database of all concepts in the world? – but structured data actually is a super old problem that has been talked about for ages! The semantic web has it figured out.

Wikidata is an open data source for unique concepts, doing exactly what we'd need. Obviously it's easier said than done, but 'all' that the Fediverse needs to do is replace or extend hashtags with a system that allows you to link a Wikidata concept by UUID. And figure out what to do with things that don't have such a UUID yet, and how to handle UX. But it would be a vast improvement over plain-text hashtags.

I don't really want this post to just die in the ether, tbh, as posts are wont to do. I'd like to actually make this a thing. Is there anyone out there who knows what an implementation of this would take? I'd love to help (computational linguist).

#tech #technology #Fediverse #activityPub #socialMedia #hashtags #semanticWeb #wikiData #mastodon #goToSocial #fediSoftware #fediDev #fediDevelopers #fediDeveloperVerse #accessibility

It's been said a lot that tech people tend to think that every problem can be solved with a tech solution, and that that is often a wrong approach that ignores social dynamics and systemic causes.

That's true, but I can think of at least one problem here on the Fediverse that really, really needs a tech solution!

That being hashtags.

The whole point of hashtags is that you can tag your content with concepts it relates to, so that others who are interested in said concepts can discover your content.

Ideally, a hashtag should therefore contain all posts relating to the concept, and should not contain any posts unrelated to the concept. This is not the case.

The problem is that hashtags are plain text only. This causes two kinds of issues:

• False positives: One hashtag is used for multiple separate concepts, grouping unrelated concepts together.
• False negatives: Multiple hashtags are used for the same concept, meaning you might miss posts of a concept you want to see.

Common examples for false positives are homonyms (seating bank vs. financial bank, video games vs. board games), abbreviations (CNC, BBC, MTF), and multilingual issues (German handy vs. English handy).

False negatives are much, much more common, even. You're missing out on synonyms (horses vs. equines), grammatical and regional variations (colouring vs. coloring, horse vs. horses) and scope issues (gaming vs. games vs. video games) at least. Also, the whole thing about 'dogsOfMastodon' versus 'dogs'.

If you add to it that the Fediverse is multi-lingual, this is getting exponentially worse. If a German account posts about dogs using the hashtag 'Hund' (or Hunde, Hundes, Hunds, Hundi, Wauwau, Köter, Welpe, Welpen...), someone subscribed to the English hashtag 'dogs' should probably also see that post.

Rather than plain text which has all of these issues, a hashtag should therefore point at an individual unique ID of a concept, unique and unambiguous across all languages and grammatical forms.

Someone should be able to subscribe to the concept of a horse – the equine animal – and not just the letters 'horse' in that order!

That might sound daunting – who has a database of all concepts in the world? – but structured data actually is a super old problem that has been talked about for ages! The semantic web has it figured out.

Wikidata is an open data source for unique concepts, doing exactly what we'd need. Obviously it's easier said than done, but 'all' that the Fediverse needs to do is replace or extend hashtags with a system that allows you to link a Wikidata concept by UUID. And figure out what to do with things that don't have such a UUID yet, and how to handle UX. But it would be a vast improvement over plain-text hashtags.

I don't really want this post to just die in the ether, tbh, as posts are wont to do. I'd like to actually make this a thing. Is there anyone out there who knows what an implementation of this would take? I'd love to help (computational linguist).

#tech #technology #Fediverse #activityPub #socialMedia #hashtags #semanticWeb #wikiData #mastodon #goToSocial #fediSoftware #fediDev #fediDevelopers #fediDeveloperVerse #accessibility

It's been said a lot that tech people tend to think that every problem can be solved with a tech solution, and that that is often a wrong approach that ignores social dynamics and systemic causes.

That's true, but I can think of at least one problem here on the Fediverse that really, really needs a tech solution!

That being hashtags.

The whole point of hashtags is that you can tag your content with concepts it relates to, so that others who are interested in said concepts can discover your content.

Ideally, a hashtag should therefore contain all posts relating to the concept, and should not contain any posts unrelated to the concept. This is not the case.

The problem is that hashtags are plain text only. This causes two kinds of issues:

• False positives: One hashtag is used for multiple separate concepts, grouping unrelated concepts together.
• False negatives: Multiple hashtags are used for the same concept, meaning you might miss posts of a concept you want to see.

Common examples for false positives are homonyms (seating bank vs. financial bank, video games vs. board games), abbreviations (CNC, BBC, MTF), and multilingual issues (German handy vs. English handy).

False negatives are much, much more common, even. You're missing out on synonyms (horses vs. equines), grammatical and regional variations (colouring vs. coloring, horse vs. horses) and scope issues (gaming vs. games vs. video games) at least. Also, the whole thing about 'dogsOfMastodon' versus 'dogs'.

If you add to it that the Fediverse is multi-lingual, this is getting exponentially worse. If a German account posts about dogs using the hashtag 'Hund' (or Hunde, Hundes, Hunds, Hundi, Wauwau, Köter, Welpe, Welpen...), someone subscribed to the English hashtag 'dogs' should probably also see that post.

Rather than plain text which has all of these issues, a hashtag should therefore point at an individual unique ID of a concept, unique and unambiguous across all languages and grammatical forms.

Someone should be able to subscribe to the concept of a horse – the equine animal – and not just the letters 'horse' in that order!

That might sound daunting – who has a database of all concepts in the world? – but structured data actually is a super old problem that has been talked about for ages! The semantic web has it figured out.

Wikidata is an open data source for unique concepts, doing exactly what we'd need. Obviously it's easier said than done, but 'all' that the Fediverse needs to do is replace or extend hashtags with a system that allows you to link a Wikidata concept by UUID. And figure out what to do with things that don't have such a UUID yet, and how to handle UX. But it would be a vast improvement over plain-text hashtags.

I don't really want this post to just die in the ether, tbh, as posts are wont to do. I'd like to actually make this a thing. Is there anyone out there who knows what an implementation of this would take? I'd love to help (computational linguist).

#tech #technology #Fediverse #activityPub #socialMedia #hashtags #semanticWeb #wikiData #mastodon #goToSocial #fediSoftware #fediDev #fediDevelopers #fediDeveloperVerse #accessibility

It's been said a lot that tech people tend to think that every problem can be solved with a tech solution, and that that is often a wrong approach that ignores social dynamics and systemic causes.

That's true, but I can think of at least one problem here on the Fediverse that really, really needs a tech solution!

That being hashtags.

The whole point of hashtags is that you can tag your content with concepts it relates to, so that others who are interested in said concepts can discover your content.

Ideally, a hashtag should therefore contain all posts relating to the concept, and should not contain any posts unrelated to the concept. This is not the case.

The problem is that hashtags are plain text only. This causes two kinds of issues:

• False positives: One hashtag is used for multiple separate concepts, grouping unrelated concepts together.
• False negatives: Multiple hashtags are used for the same concept, meaning you might miss posts of a concept you want to see.

Common examples for false positives are homonyms (seating bank vs. financial bank, video games vs. board games), abbreviations (CNC, BBC, MTF), and multilingual issues (German handy vs. English handy).

False negatives are much, much more common, even. You're missing out on synonyms (horses vs. equines), grammatical and regional variations (colouring vs. coloring, horse vs. horses) and scope issues (gaming vs. games vs. video games) at least. Also, the whole thing about 'dogsOfMastodon' versus 'dogs'.

If you add to it that the Fediverse is multi-lingual, this is getting exponentially worse. If a German account posts about dogs using the hashtag 'Hund' (or Hunde, Hundes, Hunds, Hundi, Wauwau, Köter, Welpe, Welpen...), someone subscribed to the English hashtag 'dogs' should probably also see that post.

Rather than plain text which has all of these issues, a hashtag should therefore point at an individual unique ID of a concept, unique and unambiguous across all languages and grammatical forms.

Someone should be able to subscribe to the concept of a horse – the equine animal – and not just the letters 'horse' in that order!

That might sound daunting – who has a database of all concepts in the world? – but structured data actually is a super old problem that has been talked about for ages! The semantic web has it figured out.

Wikidata is an open data source for unique concepts, doing exactly what we'd need. Obviously it's easier said than done, but 'all' that the Fediverse needs to do is replace or extend hashtags with a system that allows you to link a Wikidata concept by UUID. And figure out what to do with things that don't have such a UUID yet, and how to handle UX. But it would be a vast improvement over plain-text hashtags.

I don't really want this post to just die in the ether, tbh, as posts are wont to do. I'd like to actually make this a thing. Is there anyone out there who knows what an implementation of this would take? I'd love to help (computational linguist).

#tech #technology #Fediverse #activityPub #socialMedia #hashtags #semanticWeb #wikiData #mastodon #goToSocial #fediSoftware #fediDev #fediDevelopers #fediDeveloperVerse #accessibility

Any Fedi programmers out there want to make my dream service come true?

https://blog.taursnd.haus/display/1a041b09-1568-e1b7-3c17-7e4772328044

Any Fedi programmers out there want to make my dream service come true?

https://blog.taursnd.haus/display/1a041b09-1568-e1b7-3c17-7e4772328044

Any Fedi programmers out there want to make my dream service come true?

https://blog.taursnd.haus/display/1a041b09-1568-e1b7-3c17-7e4772328044

#glitchSoc admins -- my search-fu is failing me. can someone point me to a guide for updating the max toot length? I see there's a variable for it now so I'd rather make use of that than change the code but I haven't been able to find how to do that.

#glitchSocial #fediSoftware #admin #fediTips

#glitchSoc admins -- my search-fu is failing me. can someone point me to a guide for updating the max toot length? I see there's a variable for it now so I'd rather make use of that than change the code but I haven't been able to find how to do that.

#glitchSocial #fediSoftware #admin #fediTips

#glitchSoc admins -- my search-fu is failing me. can someone point me to a guide for updating the max toot length? I see there's a variable for it now so I'd rather make use of that than change the code but I haven't been able to find how to do that.

#glitchSocial #fediSoftware #admin #fediTips

#glitchSoc admins -- my search-fu is failing me. can someone point me to a guide for updating the max toot length? I see there's a variable for it now so I'd rather make use of that than change the code but I haven't been able to find how to do that.

#glitchSocial #fediSoftware #admin #fediTips

Sharkey can change note visibility automatically after a certain amount of time now. The notes do not get deleted, but hidden from view.
(I would acutally prefer deletion to free up storage, but I can see the value in just hiding notes as well.)

So, from now on the visibility of my notes are set to followers only after 1 month, and to private after 3 months.

Edit: The visibility change does not federate however. Which is a bit of a bummer. But my posts will be invisible on my profile page, so remote people who look at that will only see posts up to 1 month old.

For me, microblogging is ephemeral. It's like a conversation, only existing in the moment. Who's recording all their interactions they have with people after all?
(I feel there's a blog in this...)

There are exceptions every once in a while though, where I do want to save a post. Because it's funny, or witty, or holds good information, or has some other value for me. I hope that the good people of Sharkey implement more options for visibility change some time. (Right now the only options are time based.)

#Sharkey #FediSoftware

Sharkey can change note visibility automatically after a certain amount of time now. The notes do not get deleted, but hidden from view.
(I would acutally prefer deletion to free up storage, but I can see the value in just hiding notes as well.)

So, from now on the visibility of my notes are set to followers only after 1 month, and to private after 3 months.

Edit: The visibility change does not federate however. Which is a bit of a bummer. But my posts will be invisible on my profile page, so remote people who look at that will only see posts up to 1 month old.

For me, microblogging is ephemeral. It's like a conversation, only existing in the moment. Who's recording all their interactions they have with people after all?
(I feel there's a blog in this...)

There are exceptions every once in a while though, where I do want to save a post. Because it's funny, or witty, or holds good information, or has some other value for me. I hope that the good people of Sharkey implement more options for visibility change some time. (Right now the only options are time based.)

#Sharkey #FediSoftware

Sharkey can change note visibility automatically after a certain amount of time now. The notes do not get deleted, but hidden from view.
(I would acutally prefer deletion to free up storage, but I can see the value in just hiding notes as well.)

So, from now on the visibility of my notes are set to followers only after 1 month, and to private after 3 months.

Edit: The visibility change does not federate however. Which is a bit of a bummer. But my posts will be invisible on my profile page, so remote people who look at that will only see posts up to 1 month old.

For me, microblogging is ephemeral. It's like a conversation, only existing in the moment. Who's recording all their interactions they have with people after all?
(I feel there's a blog in this...)

There are exceptions every once in a while though, where I do want to save a post. Because it's funny, or witty, or holds good information, or has some other value for me. I hope that the good people of Sharkey implement more options for visibility change some time. (Right now the only options are time based.)

#Sharkey #FediSoftware

Sharkey can change note visibility automatically after a certain amount of time now. The notes do not get deleted, but hidden from view.
(I would acutally prefer deletion to free up storage, but I can see the value in just hiding notes as well.)

So, from now on the visibility of my notes are set to followers only after 1 month, and to private after 3 months.

Edit: The visibility change does not federate however. Which is a bit of a bummer. But my posts will be invisible on my profile page, so remote people who look at that will only see posts up to 1 month old.

For me, microblogging is ephemeral. It's like a conversation, only existing in the moment. Who's recording all their interactions they have with people after all?
(I feel there's a blog in this...)

There are exceptions every once in a while though, where I do want to save a post. Because it's funny, or witty, or holds good information, or has some other value for me. I hope that the good people of Sharkey implement more options for visibility change some time. (Right now the only options are time based.)

#Sharkey #FediSoftware

Sharkey can change note visibility automatically after a certain amount of time now. The notes do not get deleted, but hidden from view.
(I would acutally prefer deletion to free up storage, but I can see the value in just hiding notes as well.)

So, from now on the visibility of my notes are set to followers only after 1 month, and to private after 3 months.

For me, microblogging is ephemeral. It's like a conversation, only existing in the moment. Who's recording all their interactions they have with people after all?
(I feel there's a blog in this...)

There are exceptions every once in a while though, where I do want to save a post. Because it's funny, or witty, or holds good information, or has some other value for me. I hope that the good people of Sharkey implement more options for visibility change some time. (Right now the only options are time based.)

#Sharkey #FediSoftware

What even happened to Mbin & Kbin?

They where both really promising projects but Kbin has 3 servers 2 of which don't accept new sign ups (and doesn't seem to have updates anymore) and Mbin just seems to not be pushing to grow.

#Kbin #Mbin #FediverseSoftware #Fediverse #FediSoftware

What even happened to Mbin & Kbin?

They where both really promising projects but Kbin has 3 servers 2 of which don't accept new sign ups (and doesn't seem to have updates anymore) and Mbin just seems to not be pushing to grow.

#Kbin #Mbin #FediverseSoftware #Fediverse #FediSoftware

What even happened to Mbin & Kbin?

They where both really promising projects but Kbin has 3 servers 2 of which don't accept new sign ups (and doesn't seem to have updates anymore) and Mbin just seems to not be pushing to grow.

#Kbin #Mbin #FediverseSoftware #Fediverse #FediSoftware

What even happened to Mbin & Kbin?

They where both really promising projects but Kbin has 3 servers 2 of which don't accept new sign ups (and doesn't seem to have updates anymore) and Mbin just seems to not be pushing to grow.

#Kbin #Mbin #FediverseSoftware #Fediverse #FediSoftware

https://fedicate.org has now been updated with everyone's new data they've supplied, Thank you.

Along side this we've shipped a basic footer to allow for a better 'end' to the pages.

Will be working on some quality of life features for the platform, any feedback is welcomed so I can improve on it.

#Fedicate #Fediverse #FediverseDatabase #FediBlock #FediSoftware #Software

https://fedicate.org has now been updated with everyone's new data they've supplied, Thank you.

Along side this we've shipped a basic footer to allow for a better 'end' to the pages.

Will be working on some quality of life features for the platform, any feedback is welcomed so I can improve on it.

#Fedicate #Fediverse #FediverseDatabase #FediBlock #FediSoftware #Software

https://fedicate.org has now been updated with everyone's new data they've supplied, Thank you.

Along side this we've shipped a basic footer to allow for a better 'end' to the pages.

Will be working on some quality of life features for the platform, any feedback is welcomed so I can improve on it.

#Fedicate #Fediverse #FediverseDatabase #FediBlock #FediSoftware #Software

https://fedicate.org has now been updated with everyone's new data they've supplied, Thank you.

Along side this we've shipped a basic footer to allow for a better 'end' to the pages.

Will be working on some quality of life features for the platform, any feedback is welcomed so I can improve on it.

#Fedicate #Fediverse #FediverseDatabase #FediBlock #FediSoftware #Software

#fedi #fedisoftware

Does anyone know where I can find a spreadsheet or something similar where I can compare features of popular fedi micro-blogging software?

#fedi #fedisoftware

Does anyone know where I can find a spreadsheet or something similar where I can compare features of popular fedi micro-blogging software?

#fedi #fedisoftware

Does anyone know where I can find a spreadsheet or something similar where I can compare features of popular fedi micro-blogging software?

#fedi #fedisoftware

Does anyone know where I can find a spreadsheet or something similar where I can compare features of popular fedi micro-blogging software?

#fedi #fedisoftware

Does anyone know where I can find a spreadsheet or something similar where I can compare features of popular fedi micro-blogging software?

@apps
#FeatureRequest #FediLab #FediApp #FediTool #FediSoftware
Could we have a list like feature for hashtags too? So we could cat them and sort them to 'metahashtags' or how we then call it. 🙂

And of course my greatest wish. A Linux native app. 😊

Edit: Forget what I said about the hashtags, just found the feature. 😅

I think there's a really interesting mastodon fork on kmy.blue . It supports quote posting (compatible with Misskey), reactions, and potentially Markdown as well.

I think it is interesting especially because the quote posting thing is compatible with Misskey which is also then compatible with Threads (if you decide to federate with them that is)

#Mastodon #fedi #fediverse #foss #fedisoftware

I think there's a really interesting mastodon fork on kmy.blue . It supports quote posting (compatible with Misskey), reactions, and potentially Markdown as well.

I think it is interesting especially because the quote posting thing is compatible with Misskey which is also then compatible with Threads (if you decide to federate with them that is)

#Mastodon #fedi #fediverse #foss #fedisoftware

I think there's a really interesting mastodon fork on kmy.blue . It supports quote posting (compatible with Misskey), reactions, and potentially Markdown as well.

I think it is interesting especially because the quote posting thing is compatible with Misskey which is also then compatible with Threads (if you decide to federate with them that is)

#Mastodon #fedi #fediverse #foss #fedisoftware

I think there's a really interesting mastodon fork on kmy.blue . It supports quote posting (compatible with Misskey), reactions, and potentially Markdown as well.

I think it is interesting especially because the quote posting thing is compatible with Misskey which is also then compatible with Threads (if you decide to federate with them that is)

#Mastodon #fedi #fediverse #foss #fedisoftware

Soo, is this loforo.com the new guy in town? #FediSoftware #Fediverse

RT: https://loforo.com/u/nanutka/statuses/1120928

Soo, is this loforo.com the new guy in town? #FediSoftware #Fediverse

RT: https://loforo.com/u/nanutka/statuses/1120928

Soo, is this loforo.com the new guy in town? #FediSoftware #Fediverse

RT: https://loforo.com/u/nanutka/statuses/1120928

Running a single-user Mastodon instance is really resource intensive (for the server).

Would love to hear about any ideas anyone might have for either streamlining/optimising Mastodon or perhaps another software choice that would be better than Mastodon for a single user, and still allows moving follows/followers... 😬

Feeling in an experimental mood even though I don't really have time 😅

#FediSoftware

Running a single-user Mastodon instance is really resource intensive (for the server).

Would love to hear about any ideas anyone might have for either streamlining/optimising Mastodon or perhaps another software choice that would be better than Mastodon for a single user, and still allows moving follows/followers... 😬

Feeling in an experimental mood even though I don't really have time 😅

#FediSoftware

Running a single-user Mastodon instance is really resource intensive (for the server).

Would love to hear about any ideas anyone might have for either streamlining/optimising Mastodon or perhaps another software choice that would be better than Mastodon for a single user, and still allows moving follows/followers... 😬

Feeling in an experimental mood even though I don't really have time 😅

#FediSoftware

Running a single-user Mastodon instance is really resource intensive (for the server).

Would love to hear about any ideas anyone might have for either streamlining/optimising Mastodon or perhaps another software choice that would be better than Mastodon for a single user, and still allows moving follows/followers... 😬

Feeling in an experimental mood even though I don't really have time 😅

#FediSoftware

Running a single-user Mastodon instance is really resource intensive (for the server).

Would love to hear about any ideas anyone might have for either streamlining/optimising Mastodon or perhaps another software choice that would be better than Mastodon for a single user, and still allows moving follows/followers... 😬

Feeling in an experimental mood even though I don't really have time 😅

#FediSoftware