@darius I like following lots of people and some of them follow me back, and then I write things and then other people share them and then...

I mean it's not like I'm *trying* very hard?

@darius For me at least that's roughly the right direction. Also appropriate heists.

@darius @ja2ke masto.host surprise upgraded us to 4.01 and it's all "Publish" now.

@darius @ansate Yeah, might have been funny for a while, imho (significantly?) less so now.

@darius that is stupendously elegant.

@darius @ryanrandall @jessamyn @dansinker

This feels like a somewhat overlapping/orthogonal feature that might not necessarily be a Mastodon-service feature. If the need is "know when someone has linked to your post", where "link" also means "an activitypub post was acted on in a way that includes the subject post as a link in the body", then sure, a ping from the server making/hosting the original post makes sense.

But the wider case is "know when people are talking about you"...

@darius Yeah, jibes with my "haha" and "fuck you". Probably and predictably taken on a different feeling as time and events have passed.

@darius yeah, the Seattle times article I posted in my other thread listed those, there's one right here for us in Clackamas :(

@darius @dansinker I agree and these days as I get older I'm like 90% is an A+, I will provide my notes and feedback in due course

@darius Darius.

@darius 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@darius @blaine Hey @fraying, remember how we were talking about how smart Darius is tonight? :)

@darius @christa It is very Young Lady's Illustrated Primer material.

@jessamyn @darius YES exactly this

@darius @meetar that recent comment from ~8 days ago was a good summary.

@darius I just wanted to buy tickets, bounced off 4 times over 2 days, gave up, used my laptop.

@darius that was the next thing I was going to do!

@darius turns out if I just go to the instance, it's listed right there!

@darius @fields yeah, I need to turn elasticsearch on. It's another paid addon at masto.host which will push my personal managed instance closer to $30/mo.

@darius got it. I think I then saw the post from maybe the scholar.social admin (but their bio doesn't say they're the admin?)