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`

Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io

12/15/2025, 2:11:47 PM

Public

I’m pleased to see this line of thought from @gedankenstueckeBastian Greshake Tzovaras. I’ve been circulating the related phrase “information pollution” (e.g. here: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113266954128561131) accompanied by many related thoughts. We need more people thinking along these lines.
https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/115723930449871851

Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io)

@drahardja@sfba.social @dgoldsmith@mastodon.social I have been increasingly been using the term “information pollution” for this whole family of zone-flooding problems. We’re on the leading edge of an explosion of information pollution, mechanizing and automating it, in a way analogous to how the industrial revolution caused an explosion of air and water pollution.

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