With that initial flurry of users 18 months to two years ago, hashtags were used a lot and helped surface great people to follow. It seems that has waned and now I barely see hashtags used at all. Perhaps it's something that could be solved with AI? Like suggested "topics" to add three hashtags at the bottom or even automatically add them (with an appropriate opt-in preference at the user account level).
I like #hashtags because they're a successful #folksonomy. but they've got some big flaws. ⓵ no description or summary or anything. catching a new tag can be work just to figure out what it means sometimes. ⓶ no proximity. eg: I'd like to be able to tag plus codes (OLC) and have people looking for a larger area also find my specific toot. there are lots of ways that toots and tags may be adjacent to each other.
There are many things to like about Mastodon, but one thing I have come to love, with all its blurriness, is being able to follow #hashtags. It truly is delightful.
#introduction Bonjour, I'm Marc (a.k.a. "T0K_"), a #phd student working on #privacy -preserving technologies. Outside the lab, I spend my time playing #videogames and losing #ctf challenges.
With this account, I'll promote some of my academic work . I might also engage in stupid and vibrant debates about random geeky stuffs .
I'm not entirely sure yet what I'll do with this Mastodon account, so I don't exclude the possibility of some cat pics or even some shitposting
Aha! You say you are privacy conscious, but with that photo of you in your banner, now I know what you look like! I would recognize that square head anywhere!
:) Just joking. Welcome to Mastodon!
+1 Privacy-preservation.
Try following @FediFollows for curated lists of whom you should follow.
Follow @lisamelton for an interesting and varied feed.
Do lots of searches for #hashtags.
Does anyone know if there's a way to make a list on mastodon that follows hashtags? I want to keep up with all these writing tags but not on my main feed. Suggestions welcome.
@sfwrtr I don't follow all that techspeak, but this was my sense, too. Your main feed is just a list. When we make "lists," we're creating a side feed of selected accounts off the main feed, so the only problem is that I don't have a way to put hashtags into lists, not that it's not possible. "Unimplemented feature" is the perfect term for it!
#Hashtags
This is my argument for people to capitalize the words in their hashtags. I've noticed more and more people are not capitalizing the words in their hashtags, which makes them harder to read. For example: #pleasecapitakizeyourhashtags #PleaseCapitaliseYourHashtags
Our brains recognize words partial my their shape so capitalizing them makes it easier to do that.
By "Tumblr pulled a DeviantArt", you mean...? My impression was DeviantArt was always nsfw, but Tumblr now disallows that? Or did DeviantArt also change their terms to be more restrictive?
Anyway, follow @FediFollows for curated lists of whom you should follow.
Follow @lisamelton for an interesting and varied feed.
Do lots of searches for #hashtags.
I echo that welcome/je renforce cet accueil. Hope you like it here!
+1 osm. I rely on it every day.
Follow @FediFollows for curated lists of whom you should follow.
Follow @lisamelton for an interesting and varied feed.
Do lots of searches for #hashtags.
@MonaApp Is it possible to filter #hashtags from the main timeline but keep it in a tab icon? Basically like lists.. I can find the „pin to tab bar“ but don’t know how to filter it from the timeline..
Just wan say I joined mastodon by accident. Just saw this ho trending 1 day an I thought yeah what tf.
It is so fking good tho. So many different posts yall don get on other socials.
I no I'm younger than most folks on here but this shit good.
Looking fo mo people to fw. Hit me up if yall interested.
Love Jaden ❤️ #introduction#introductions
@Jaden3
Wow, great to see you here!!! I can't even get my own kid on here. Do you mind if I give a couple good tips? If not, here's #1 - Always use #hashtags in your posts and in your profile. There are no evil algorithms or overlords here who decide what you're allowed to see. . #2 You can find cool people to follow with Search button and the hashtag you want to see. My posts, for example, say #travel and #photography.
#Bluesky supports #quoteposts, but not listing all known quotes of a post? And you're telling me this is supposed to be the most Twitter-like experience, when this feature has been a staple of #Twitter for many years?
This is worse than not having #hashtags. How tf am I supposed to know if a post got quoted? Even #Misskey supports listing all known quotes FFS! :parsee_angy:
The Israeli state is starving the people of Gaza and I don’t know how to wrap my head around the horror of this.
I watched Asad do this to Syrians for years and it is a horrific way to die. People with diabetes will die first, in agony, and then children and the elderly.