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Antenna used to work differently, but were changed to be less performance intensive (and less useful) somewhere after the rebrand to Firefish.
Before the change, they were the single best feature of Firefish IMO
Interesting. I wrestled with them before the rebrand and concluded that where they were useful I could do the same with mastodon, but that they introduced too much complexity that just wasn’t helpful, and that was apart from the performance. From memory a central issue was that antennas pull down partial word matches and you couldn’t opt of that, which meant hashtags were the most useful queries as the leading hash avoided spurious matches.
The one exception to that would be the way you could select sources for any antenna, that is useful for sure.
I found the extra flexibility really useful. I could have an arbitrary number of words or hashtags in each antenna, rather than 4 like mastodon, which allowed me to cover all of the variations I wanted. I could use multiple words on one line for a boolean "and" function. Rare words, I would use without hashtags, common words, I would restrict to hashtags.
I could follow instances, I could follow people, I could follow keywords, and I could follow regular words, with more control than basic hashtags.
Ooooh, is that what happened? I noticed Antennae got worse after the rebrand but wasn't sure what happened.