I don't know why so many people seem to think that using a lot of hashtags is some kind of negative personality indicator.

Posts with a lot of hashtags supposedly look "attention-seeking" or "commercial". Some decry hashtag-users as remnants of old toxic social media habits and 'SEO' (search engine optimisation).

Without content recommendation algorithms, we've got to handle the discoverability by ourselves!

More hashtags on posts mean a more solid search and filter system! We all should use more hashtags.

#fedi #fediverse #fediMeta

see? those were three already, and they're all ones that people plausibly search for.

screw you here's more:

Alten Account nochmal reaktiviert, um mir die gefolgten #Hashtags anzugucken, um ihnen hier auch wieder zu folgen – waren zum Glück nur 12, also manuell machbar – und dann wieder auf diesen hier umgeleitet.

hi! am mango/menko/monika
with uhm... recent events, ive been getting more into the decentralized internet and off of the centralized internet,
i do things sometimes!!!!!! ill probably post art or adjacent things here, as well as random thoughts :3
uhh beyond that i do normal transfem furry things like stay in my room too much, listen to breakcore, watch anime, and play video games ^w^
(i do not know what i am doing here the main social media ive used before this is tumblr lmao)

#trans, #introduction, #transgender, #furry, #(i #think #this #is #how #hashtags #work #i #have #no #fucking #clue) #trans, #introduction, #transgender, #furry

Open Lemmy comment threads in Mastodon?
https://lemmy.ml/post/34566169
From the Fediverse community feed on Lemmy.ml: submitted by glowing_hans to fediverse7 points | 2 commentsSince both lemmy and Mastodon use the fediverse, is it possible to view comment threads under posts from lemmy in Mastodon? How to find a link that works in both/ is it related to the posts id?
Would these work with #hashtags ?

Information, Communication & Society: Hashtags, Hatetags and social media campaigns in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict . “This article examines the role of social media, specifically Twitter, in the amplification of violent divisive discourse during Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict (2020–2022), introducing the concept of Hatetags to analyze the transforming of hashtags into vehicles of digital conflict.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/11/information-communication-society-hashtags-hatetags-and-social-media-campaigns-in-ethiopias-tigray-conflict/

VerbaMea: About Tag Push . This is for Mastodon. “The concept is simple…. Follow any of the tag accounts, which corresponds to a hashtag, and you will get copies of posts as they appear around the fediverse, straight to your own timeline. We’re still testing, and growing. Look at the list below for the tags we are sniffing out and pushing onwards.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/08/verbamea-about-tag-push/

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Released version 1.0.3 of #FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed. Incredibly minor bugfix release.

* Link: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522
* Release notes: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/releases

Hey kids — a tip from An Old:

I don’t read most emojis. Brain skips right over them. Same thing for most #hashtags if the interface renders them in a different color.

If you wish to communicate with us Olds you need to use words or possibly emoticons. (Look it up…)

I need to use more hashtags in general because searching for prior posts is much easier when you do so. They add a lot more work to posts however. I might want to just run each post through a LLM to just automatically produce the hashtags instead of having to think about them. #NeedHashtags #Hashtags #Utility #Efficiency #LeisureMaxxing

On hashtags.

They make the Fedi what it is. They are respectful and anarchic.

A post on US politics? My friends who can't process this any more: they can filter it out if I flag it with a hashtag.

I write about an obscure poet? Those who are curious but unaware : they will find my post if I flag it right.

A long-standing line of posts on my dog? I give it a unique hashtag and others can follow up, if they so wish.

Most importantly: we don't sell. We don't maximise finds. Let the world find your post when the world is ready for it. Never make an exhaustive list of hashtags that cover all aspects. 2-4, maximum 6.

Your post with its hashtags is a letter in a bottle, floating in the ocean.

It need not be found. Randomness is good.

Make your hashtags partial. Make them obscure.

The Lady Joan Mastodon once told me: Roamer, use hashtags, they are what will make us win. But use them wisely. Confuse the Great Algo. Trust in chance.

Do you follow hashtags?