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   Jennifer Taub (jentaub@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 21:52:45 JST Jennifer Taub

   ♥️ Welcome to the #Fediverse

   Are you part of the #TwitterMigration?
   Read this:

   https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-find-twitter-friends-on-mastodon/

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 21:52:30 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • David Dault

     @jentaub @DaultRadio

     There is a search function but it works through hashtags.

     Search for a hashtag, you'll see some suggestions of variations appear, click the one you want.

     By the way, there's currently a bug that often makes it say 0 even when there are lots of results. Ignore the numbers, and click on the tag you want.

     (A lot of articles haven't been very accurate, I don't think they're used to federated social networks.)

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     Jennifer Taub (jentaub@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 21:52:37 JST Jennifer Taub

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     @DaultRadio

     I think if you look at @feditips there’s more to learn

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     David Dault (daultradio@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 21:52:44 JST David Dault

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     @jentaub This seems to confirm (again) that Mastodon has no functional or useful search function for users. The tl;dr of the article’s how-to is basically ‘search on Twitter.’ Am I missing something?

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     David Dault (daultradio@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 22:06:53 JST David Dault

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     @feditips @jentaub [nods] The search bar says hashtags *and users.*

     I’m looking specifically for people who I *know* are on Mastodon, where I know their handles and even often the full handles including the servers they are on, and ‘search’ cannot find them (or finds some, but not others - which is weirder).

     tl;dr - It’s not a fucntional search right now.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 22:10:15 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • David Dault

     @DaultRadio @jentaub

     If you enter the full account address in the form "@ user @ server" without the spaces, it should work.

     If it's not working for you right now, it sounds like your server has a bug or a delay on it, possibly caused by the huge number of signups in past few days.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 22:14:40 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • David Dault

     @DaultRadio @jentaub

     If any server in the world suddenly has to cope with two or three times more than its usual number of active users, it may behave in unexpected ways.

     The surest, most guaranteed way to find an account on here is this:

     https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/#WhatsMyAccountsAddress

     If this doesn't work for you at this minute on your server, it may be due to the server being under unexpected strain.

     Bear in mind all these servers are run by volunteers, it takes some time to upgrade the hardware.

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     David Dault (daultradio@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 22:14:41 JST David Dault

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     @feditips @jentaub Again, we live in a world *after* Twitter. If I’m coming here trying to find people I know are here, with solid information, and ai cannot find them quickly and easily, that’s a bug, not a feature.

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     David Dault (daultradio@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 22:16:26 JST David Dault

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     @feditips @jentaub [nods] Yes, I agree it should work, but it doesn’t.

     Again, we live in a world *after* Twitter. If Mastodon wants to be a viable Twitter alternative, saying again and again “hey, it’s just quirky! read the manual!” is not a selling point.

     I’m not mad or anything, but it is *very* important that Mastodon not act like #AntiSocialMedia for new users migrating from a much more UX friendly Twitter

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     David Dault (daultradio@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 22:22:39 JST David Dault

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     @feditips @jentaub [nods] Again, we live *after* Twitter, where the search bar works just fine.

     I hate to keep saying it, but in 2022 RTFM is just a bug, not a feature.

     If the ‘surest way to find somebody’ on Mastodon is a whole separate link, then - I dunno - just get the search bar to *link there,* I guess?

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     Dan Cline (dancline@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 01:52:57 JST Dan Cline

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     @feditips @jentaub @DaultRadio the iOS apps allow you to search by name (first and/or last) as well as by hashtag.