@cheeaun yeah from time to time. I use Maps a LOT, though, so maybe I get more than the average person. I didn't think about the street view folk that walk about. Almost all of the street view stuff I'm familiar with is from cars driving about. I guess in urban and pedestrian zones, it must be people. I was aware too of people on bikes (trikes, I think?) riding around.
@lastwordonsport Yeah, I think a lot of people possibly don't bother with the #MastodonFC tag. I try to keep it up in all my footie posts. I like to use groups like @spurs and @epl wherever I can because they can be added to lists and all the benefits that brings, and the posts more reliably federate. Shouldn't have to think about this tech stuff, but it's relatively early days for the fediverse and rough edges abounds, like early Twitter.
@SwellWines@spurs I'm sticking around and won't be going over to Bluesky any time soon. I don't think it's significantly better, but it looks a lot more like Twitter so I think it suits those leaving Twitter who still actually liked Twitter pre-Musk.
The @nfl group is I think the biggest of all the Mastodon groups. Best ask there.
Tip for using busy groups: follow it, add to a list, set the list to "hide from home timeline". Posts on that list then only appear in the list, creating a nice separation from you main timeline.
Hopefully we'll be able to add hashtags to lists too one day, but not possible at the moment.
Press seem well prepared for this. Videos and articles coming out almost immediately. Was this news shared early under embargo or just obituary style stuff prepared in case of emergency?
"Atlético is also said to have made an opening bid of around 12 million euros, excluding a number of bonuses. An amount that doesn't even come close to what Antwerp hopes to get for Vermeeren."
"Atlético has since increased its bid, but so far the gap between what both clubs have in mind is still very large."
Antwerp want a loan back until summer if he is sold in January.
In particular the "Groups federate content more effectively than hashtags" bit. In short, you're never guaranteed to see all hashtagged posts. This problem is especially bad on a small or niche server. But if you follow a group, you're guaranteed to get all the messages posted to it. Groups are more reliable.
Also, you can put a group in a list and set that list to "Hide these posts from home" so they don't clog your timeline.
You can't put hashtags in lists, so you can't, for instance, put #COYS and #MastodonFC in a list and hide those posts from home. But you can put @spurs and @soccer and @epl in a list and hide those messages from home. It makes sense when you try it.