Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Emil Jacobs - Collectifission @collectifission@greennuclear.online

2/14/2026, 6:31:51 AM

Public

This here is why I keep using "community owned social media". We have something precious here: *our* corner of the internet.

(I couldn't quote, so a screenshot of this post by @ajAJ Sadauskas will have to do)

Recently, there was a question by @taylorlorenz about how you explain the Fediverse to someone who doesn't use it.

And usually, what we tend to do is we talk about servers and decentralisation and federation and ActivityPub and all these highly technical concepts.

I've been thinking about it, and all that technical stuff is really impressive work by people far more clever than I'll ever be.

But for me, that technology is a facilitating thing. It's like trying to describe how a bicycle works, rather than why you ride it.

Instead, what the Fediverse is, is a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way.

Which is increasingly a rare thing online.

Almost the entirety of the internet, from SEO on the web to YouTube to TikTok to Spotify to Instagram and X and Facebook, has been turned into a race to game an algorithm designed to sell ads.

What makes the Fedi unique is that it's not that.

And I suspect if you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or GtS, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining it as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a decentralised protocol.

Veronique Delhalle @Veronique_D@mastodon.green

2/14/2026, 9:22:56 AM

Public

@collectifissionEmil Jacobs - Collectifission @ajAJ Sadauskas
I really like "Community owned social media".
I have another profile for my company on Mastodon. I explain to customers that they can find the profile and check all posts in there without creating an account. I can see in their eyes how mind-blowing that is to them.

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://mastodon.green/users/Veronique_D/statuses/116068252182694340 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)