(2023-02-26) Udell Mapping People And Tags On Mastodon

Jon Udell: Mapping people and tags on Mastodon. In Mastodon relationship graphs I showed how to use Steampipe to map Mastodon network neighborhoods. When I use the word map here, I’m channeling Denis Wood’s The Power of Maps: Every map shows this … but not that, and every map shows what it shows this way … but not the other way.

The aspect chosen by those neighborhood maps is the boost

Meanwhile, though, I’ve come up with another map to display the tags that appear in the results of a Mastodon tag search, along with the accounts that use those tags.

It proved its worth today when I was looking for perspectives on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. As you’ve likely noticed, the US Supreme Court is reconsidering Section 230.

One affordance that Mastodon provides: search for toots that use the #Section230 tag.