Hello. This is not yet an actual Intro, but a preliminary "How Do I or maybe rather "Please would you ?" toot. I've only just created a new account here tonight, some hours ago, & have been trying to manually transfer / copy my various data from my earlier #Firefish account [@MsDropbear42@firefish.social], but that Instance is apparently having a spot of bother over recent hours & still now, being unreachable for most of this time, so as of yet i've been unable to complete this initial task.

Here in firefish.lgbt in the meantime, i've manually recreated my #FollowedHashtags Antenna & added it to my Deck. As feared would be likely though, given this Instance has very few users atm thus afaik has limited federating-effect, this Antenna remains empty [some hours now].

Thus, i'm now officially throwing myself at the feet of Mods / Admin @admin@firefish.lgbt & begging for my tags to be added to the "fedibuzz tag relays" per https://firefish.lgbt/notes/9hvfu8kczhc2yg75 , please please pretty please

Atm my Profile here is incomplete, but all the #hashtags to which i allude are listed there now.

Provisionally, thank you.

Each time i look in again on my still-newish #Firefish account, hoping to see some of the disappointing bugs resolved, i'm very quickly saddened again by apparently irrelevant toots appearing in my #followedhashtags #antenna. The picture shows a typical example. I do NOT follow those tags, so why is this toot here in my Antenna?

Then, i wondered if maybe, all this time, i might be fundamentally misunderstanding how to properly use Antennae for following tags. The closest tag i do follow, & whose toots i absolutely do want in this t/l, is #Linux ... by which my intention was that full word, but only that full word, not also that word as part of a longer tag. This pictured toot, https://firefish.social/notes/9hy57g0wn9nfkh0x, does otoh include tag #Linuxulator. Is Firefish's Antenna algorithm looking for all occurrences of my #Linux tag, even if only a fragment of a longer tag? If so, how can i stop it doing that, & make it only search for my literal tags as-is?

Btw, apologies to Vince -- i'm not trying to be mean to your fine toot; tis just a good example of how my Antenna is either incorrectly functioning, or instead my erroneous usage of it. Your toot is lovely, i'm sure!

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