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ResearchBuzz @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host · 3 months ago

The Big Mastodon Hashtag Search -- https://mastogizmos.com/bmhs.html

The Big Mastodon Hashtag Search searches 14 popular Mastodon instances with the option for you to add your own.

The search results offer a number of filters. There's a slider where you can filter by social score (calculated based on the number of replies/reposts/favorites) and a number of filtering checkboxes for recency, content marked sensitive, bots, verified accounts, etc. You can also keyword-search returned results.

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The interface for Big Mastodon Hashtag Search. The first part of the interface asks if you want to add additional instances to the default search. Beneath that, a number of checkboxes allow filtering of the returned results.

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ResearchBuzz @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host · 3 months ago

David's 'Dex -- https://mastogizmos.com/dex.html

David's Dex is named after @davidaugust , who gave me the idea. David's Dex loads the first 25,000 users of a specified instance and lets you browse/search them. You can filter by a number of factors, including follower count and how recently they have posted. You can also browse by bio links, verified or not.

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A screenshot of David's Dex in action. It is looking at Journa.host, filtering users by follower count and recent activity. In the detail page more information is shown about journalist and academic Dan Kennedy.

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ResearchBuzz @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host · 3 months ago

Hashtag Harvest -- https://mastogizmos.com/hh.html

Hashtag Harvest searches hashtags across four large instances and generates a list of related hashtags based on their frequency in the search results. Additionally, Hashtag Harvest lists Mastodon users who are associated with your searched hashtag, if you're looking for people to follow.

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A screenshot of Hashtag Harvest in action. A search has been done for #mastodon .Beneath that a number of related hashtags are listed, including #news, #press, and #Ukraine.

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ResearchBuzz @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host · 3 months ago

Wikipedia-Mastodon Thing -- https://mastogizmos.com/wmt.html

Occasionally my ability to name my tools fails, lol. Anyway, Wikipedia-Mastodon Thing lets you keyword search #Wikipedia for articles with associated Mastodon addresses in #Wikidata. .

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A screenshot of Wikipedia-Mastodon thing in action. Sweden has been searched for,. Beneath that are six Wikipedia articles which have Mastodon addresses associated with them, including Markus Perrson, Pirate Party, and Greta Thunberg.

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ResearchBuzz @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host · 3 months ago

Mastodon Web Search -- https://mastogizmos.com/mws.html

Mastodon is a social network but it's ALSO a set of Web sites. And Web sites can be searched. Mastodon Web Search gives you two different ways to find Mastodon instances via Instances.Social and lets you bundle those instances into a #Google search with the help of site: syntax.

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Mastodon Web Search in action. This part shows a bunch of checkboxes with Mastodon instance information with them. Pick ten of them and they'll be bundled into a Google search (using the site: syntax) along with your original query.

ResearchBuzz @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host · 3 months ago

RSStodon -- https://mastogizmos.com/rss.html

I am #RSS for life and I'm not apologizing for it. RSStodon takes a language and a keyword and generates an OPML file of keyword-based feeds for the largest ten instances in that language.

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RSStodon. There's a form for language code, and another for hashtag. This one mostly generates an external text file so the screenshots aren't very exciting.

This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes

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