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`

Steve Bate @steve@social.technoetic.com

3/17/2026, 6:01:02 AM

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@hongminhee洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) > Slapping an #ActivityPub facade onto an existing Mastodon-like server and calling it C2S doesn't buy you much ...

The benefit of having a C2S adapter for Mastodon is that it provides a large user pool that could motivate developers to create C2S UIs rather than only supporting the Mastodon API. Having more server-independent client implementations may motivate devs to build general C2S servers with advanced features and eventually disrupt the Mastodon dominance in the Fedi.

Steve Bate @steve@social.technoetic.com

3/17/2026, 6:05:47 AM

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@hongminhee洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) A general-purpose C2S API doesn't mean the user interfaces themselves are general-purpose. One could still build a microblogging UI, a geosocial app, a image sharing app, a chess game app, or whatever, but these would be able to interact with the same AP C2S server for account management, data storage and federation. And they could all use the same account rather than the account-per-service/app model we have now.

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