I like this idea for a #LettersToTheEditor #preprint server.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-025-10022-y

"Such a preprint server would offer three major benefits…: format-free ease of swift communication, increased author visibility and accountability, and avoiding the homelessness of unpublished [letters]."

PS: I've sent letters to journals that had policies not to publish them, but without saying so anywhere. Once I sent a letter to a new journal that had never received or published one and needed time to think about it. Right now #SocialMedia takes up this slack and does a pretty good job. But posting letters as preprints would give authors more space, prevent even published letters from languishing behind #paywalls, and offer better opportunities for #PIDs, #metadata, and #discoverability.

Easier community discovery - PieFed knows all the communities already

https://piefed.social/post/531611

Advice from a friend who ports indie games for a living!

Gisteren heb ik de stream zitten kijken over de discovery service voor fediverse accounts waar het mastodon project aan werkt.

Zodra er echt een release is, wil ik kijken of we dit specifiek voor het Nederlandstalig deel van de fediverse kunnen inrichten.

Een betere vindbaarheid van elkaar is echt nodig om de fediverse voor meer mensen toegankelijk te maken.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4531-fediscovery-improving-search-and-discovery-on-the-fediverse/

As the OGC API - Records Candidate Standard enters the voting period, you can learn more about this flexible specification at: https://records.developer.ogc.org/ #OGCAPI #standards #catalog #metadata #discoverability #stac

is there any projects focused on discoverability in the fediverse?

not entirely sure how to search for this

How to find conversations here?

- choose a keyword that stands for an area of interest - for example "joy" or "emissions" or "whiteness"
- look for it from the top box or click: #joy #emissions #whiteness

hey! I've put together a proposal for adding a place to add tags to the mastodon post composer because I think that it would improve discoverability across the board. if you want to give some input on it you can check it out here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32602

you know what mastodon desperately needs? LISTS. there should be a system where you can make lists of people and then follow/block a whole list at a time.

right now there's a problem where I want to be in a bunch of cool local feeds but I don't want to make a ton of duplicate accounts. if those worked like lists instead this would be a non-issue.

Something I would love to see on the #fediverse: That people could curate lists of hashtags and people to #follow that you could browse and follow people through without having to switch instance, copy addresses and put that in your search bar back at your own instance. Surfing the fediverse is not really like surfing, it's more like going to catch fish on the sea, but the kind of fish you need to bring home before you can eat them (yeah super bad metaphor, you get the point) #discoverability

This past week I've been doing _a lot_ of work on a new "thi.ng browser" tool (and the associated metadata) to help people exploring the thi.ng universe via a tree-based user interface of tags/keywords (current selection is 750 tags with only ~375 of 500+ projects in total).

https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/thing-browser/

Each tag shown is a potential entry route. By unfolding nested levels of the tag tree, each branch is creating increasingly narrower tag intersections to filter the list of available packages & examples. At each level, a list of related tags will be shown. Some tags/acronyms have associated glossary entries for further reading (incl. on Wikipedia). Nested tags can be promoted as new main search term (via "open as root"), which might increase the result set again. You can use the fuzzy search input to pre-filter the initial list of tags you're interested in... or use the list of initials as a kinda book index.

All this is work in progress! There're no easy or linear ways to consolidate and update the metadata of all these projects, manually assign screenshots/thumbnails, deduplicate language/tags etc. I've already been doing dozens of passes semi-automating keyword updates, but I'm guessing I'm only 1/3rd done... But, I'm already _very_ happy about how this is turning out and hope it will be useful to others as well! For any ideas/feedback[1], please reply here or use the GH discussions...

Eventually, I want to include additional levels & information both on the topic/tagging side (e.g. start with a smaller number of use case "macro"-tags) and on the project end (i.e. to unfold projects and their resources/assets)..

New or existing users might also find the source code of this tool interesting. No docs/comments added yet, but hoping to address these over the next week!

[1] ...as always, highly appreciated!

"Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites"
https://digiday.com/media/why-publishers-are-preparing-to-federate-their-sites/

PS: When will #AcademicPublishers start to do this? For them, it would be all gain, no loss, whether or not their works were #OpenAccess.

I might not follow a #publisher, since too many of its works would fall outside my areas of interest. But I would definitely follow #journals and #book series. I'd also follow #tags.

Did you miss the University of Alberta Library #Editorial Lunch and Learn featuring multilingual publishing with #OpenJournalSytems?

Start with this thread!

Why #MultilingualPublishing? When English is viewed as the standard for #ScholarlyPublishing, a lot of research is missed or minimalized.

Language-inclusivity improves #metadata, #indexing & #discoverability.

Consider using #OJS settings as part of an alternative publishing model

I think https://streetpass.social/ mastodon extension is a must have for all users of Mastodon. Such a nice way to know about all the amazing folks who create content that you are reading. Thanks @tvler for creating it

#tips
#mastotips
#discoverability
#welcome
#resources
#follow

Hey I've just realised there's a thing I do that others might benefit from.

If I see a post from someone on a server that sounds cool - I fire up a web browser and go to [cool.server]/public/local to see if there are other cool people on that server that I might want to follow.

#discovery #discoverability
#MastodonMeta #MastoMeta

Doing #this with your #hashtags does not #aid in #discoverability because #nobody is #looking for a #hashtag about "#looking". It simply #makes your #post look #ugly as #shit for #nogoodreason. Put your #tags at the #end of the #post. They will be #condensed by most #fedi software worth its #salt and will be #outoftheway and #unobtrusive. It also doesn't #look #like you're trying to #drum up #fakeengagement.