Notices by Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social), page 7

@jackofalltrades @CelloMomOnCars 215/3 = 72 ish, so am laughing in *UK abject failure* where we have 14.4 GW installed and a population only 20% smaller 🤦♂️

@jackofalltrades @CelloMomOnCars that must be the southern states dragging the US average up, right?

@jackofalltrades @CelloMomOnCars although I note that even a northern state like Maine is at the same latitude as the Bordeaux estuary. I guess the US as a whole is a lot more south than I tend to think of

@jackofalltrades @CelloMomOnCars thanks. Good to see that, as you say, the *relative* amounts are roughly the same.

And yes, the EIA was my US source.

@aral amaaazing. Thank you

It seems to me (but what do I know) that if Mastodon really wants to eat Twitter’s lunch, search is a vital bit of cutlery

I use(d) search all the time on Twitter. It brings me what I want 24 times out of 25. (The other time it does something weird but I know how to work around it.)

When I use Mastodon search it brings me what I hoped for maybe 1 time out of 10. That is dispiriting

I realise that search is designed differently here. I have a vague understanding of in what ways and for what reasons but I need to understand that better.

But consider this: if someone is new here, or coming back after a hiatus, and is interested in a *topic*, and when they do a search for that topic all they get back is their own toots about it (if any), is that search design good?