Antennas.
Antennas are effectively custom timelines. They work approximately like watching hashtags, but they can look for normal text as well. You can add as many phrases as you like and the results can be filtered with an ignore list.
You can make an antenna that just shows posts from specific users and notifies you when they post something new, you can make an antenna that collects posts containing or excluding certain key words, or you can make an antenna that collects only posts with files attached. You can even make an antenna consisting of “Posts from specific users” with “Show replies” checked.
Setting up
You can set up antenna by going to the More! section on your sidebar, and selecting Antennas. Press Add + to create your first. This is where you can also manage & edit previously created antennas.
Images:
Where to find More! on the sidebar (highlighted)
Where to find Antennas in the More! menu (highlighted)
My antennas page showing Add + button and my previously created antennas.
4 & 5) When you click Add + you get this page to set up your antenna. I've set one up as my Calckey antenna and another to alert me when PastaThief posts. There's a lot to go through here. Expect a separate post sometime soon.
6 & 7) What those antenna feeds look like.
On our progressive web app you can access your antennas by selecting the UFO in the top right corner.
Clicking on the UFO button brings up all my antennas and the link to manage/edit them
A big hello and welcome to all the new people who've joined #blahajzone the past couple of days. It's great to have you here!
Our admins are @ada and @supakaity.
Ada leads the front of house and moderation side of Blåhaj Zone, while Kaity leads the back-end and maintains Hajkey for us & a small group of other instances.
We also have a #Lemmy server available for signups at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone and a #kbin server that's soon to be open, for those looking for #Reddit - like communities. They can also be interacted with from here or other places in the Fediverse.
I've somehow settled on a working environment where I use interchangeably my #hajkey and #mastodon accounts in my PC.
to follow a long thread I prefer Masto.
to reply on that thread with more than 500 chars, I continue from Hajkey
to find content I use Hajkey's antennas.
to find people, definitely Hajkey. I'm much faster being over to hover over a name to see all the details before I decide to follow or not.
to keep up with what's going on with the people I follow: Mastodon. Home tab is easier on Masto.
Is it worth having different accounts on different instances like as a backup?
I'm very happy where I am at the moment especially seeing the move/migration to #iceshrimp/#hajkey on blahaj.zone its a super cool idea :drgn_happy:
Just wondering if there been any times where an instances just dropped off without notice? It's actually my biggest fear with alot of things here on the fedi but I guess that's just the risk ones take here?
If you're a fediverse dev or a fedivangelist, please read this! This is our chance to really get in to the nitty gritty of search opt in permissions at the AP level!
Is there any way to get the #FollowRequests blinking dot to go away? I don't have any pending follow requests 😭
Also is there a way to disable all sounds in #HajKey? I tried turning the master volume all the way down but it still plays the alert and it hijacks my audio every single time :(
Meanwhile me, also using #Hajkey#Iceshrimp, has #MFM animations turned off and @ada wrote me a bit of CSS to minimise it too cos I can't stand too much of it lol.
And now we're nearly at 1000 accounts and it still feels like an oasis from hate. I love that this place exists, our safety is paramount, and that won't change regardless of what other servers do. #trans#fediverse#fediversesafety#calckey#hajkey#findaserver
Love the new #hajkey timeline filters!!! ❤️❤️❤️ I cannot begin to tell you how simple it was to check my mentions with the parent post hidden - Fine-grain controls and yet easily toggled! 🤤😅 You are amazing @supakaity 💜💜💜 I hope these become available for everyone using #calckey eventually. #fediverse
Is there any way to have my instance fetch posts/notes after they've been sent? For example if I encounter a new person, I can't see any of their posts unless they're pinned. Or is that just a limitation of the fediverse, if your instance didn't see it when it happened, it doesn't exist? #help#sysadmin#instanceadmin#hajkey#iceshrimp
Feditext beta users, today's TestFlight build 69 includes various fixes and workarounds for Firefish and Hajkey.
we will be working with server devs to get some of those fixed on the server side (for Hajkey's case, in Iceshrimp), so that future clients won't have to special-case anything.
known not to work in this release:
Hajkey's suggested accounts to follow: displays an error message
intermittent foreign key constraint error when browsing Firefish or Hajkey timelines: you don't need to report this one, we're already investigating
I thought following 1600 accounts would be untenable, but with a bit of effort and a great help from filtering boosts on #hajkey when the feed gets too fast, or I just want things to feel a bit more personal, I'm super stoked with my feed as of this moment.
It's a great privilege to have a post go "viral" here, and not just any post, but one that I think represents me in some way (oblique as it may be). The quantity of reacts is nice, but what I really value, is checking the notifications for who is reacting and finding some absolute banger accounts!
My follow request section has a blinking dot like there's something in there, but there isn't... How do i make it stop? #calckey#firefish#iceshrimp#hajkey
i knew that it is possible to delete other *key users' replies to my posts by deleting my original post, but i haven't known that deleting an original post entails deletion of other *key users' quotes of the deleted post > this is so cool :abunhdhappy: