op thank you for this post. I have a draft of text I'd like to type it's ok. Its related to the topic of Mastodon, not necessarily a reply to the post itself.

Anyway, I'm still trying to learn Mastodon. I do like that we get 500 characters (1000 on techhub.social).

I'm kind of learning I think, that, in order to run a "search", you kind of have to make a post with the search word with a hashtag. So, if I wanted to search for the topic of let's say "weather", on Twitter I search that word. Or even a phrase. On Mastodon, you can't really do that. You have to make a post that has "#weather" in it and then you can click that hashtag to see if anyone else made a post with that hashtag.

edit: correct me if i'm wrong?

draft comment not aimed at OP but rather just a sort of random shower thought -

instead of using the word "fediverse" would "activitypub" be a more prime time / palatable / sellable / legit / grown up sounding word to use?

draft - This is a good post. Should/can I post this post link with a short description to my mastodon account? What about my twitter account?

yum

upvolt

what about kbeans?

draft - is kbin working on options like this? i only see "hot/active/newest/oldest/" but no "top" option

also, would it be possible for the jerboa developers to add kbin support?

how.

there are some good convertible $500 chromebooks with core i3 + 8gb ram that are sometimes on sale for $400 or even $350. All Chromebooks support USBC charging and most $500 chromebooks will be convertibles and do video out as well.