@peterrowlett I wonder if I didn't find any because they are on a different instance, and how I would, from here, search for it there. This seems like a lot of work ...
@ColinTheMathmo they aren't all on my instance, either. Not sure. I can't seem to search for a term that isn't a hashtag, which is quite annoying.
@peterrowlett Search on Twitter has always been a complete pig's ear, no reason to believe it could possibly be better here. This was the problem I had with Ello, too. Lack of discoverability. There is possibly space for a separate tool for people to connect with each other.
@ColinTheMathmo yes, but with Twitter search I could do something like this and get some sort of result: https://twitter.com/search?q=Mastodon%20confusing
Here, it seems to be I can only search hashtags.
@peterrowlett I've tried searching hashtags and got no results at all. Wonder what's happening.
@ColinTheMathmo I don't know. If I type, say, "juggling" into the search box it says "1 result: #juggling". Then I click on #juggling and a column (off the right of my screen) opens with two results. I'm unsure if that is all the results or really what is happening.
@peterrowlett I type "juggling" into the search box and get no results. I click on your hashtag and the results column on the right says "There is nothing in this hashtag yet." I suspect it's limited to instances - searching across instances will be a challenge.
@ColinTheMathmo hmm. In this case, the two results I see are from Octodon (my instance). But when I searched #math/#maths earlier I saw results from others.
@peterrowlett The way federation works is that some things follow the trail of followers. So if there's a "cross-patching" between instances then the "toot" might travel, and hence be findable. Hard to say.
@ColinTheMathmo hard to say is right. Ho hum.
@peterrowlett I've done a search for #math and #maths and only found you - are there more?