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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

Corporate social networks are trying to kill the hashtag because they want users to only discover things through corporate algorithms 😩

Mastodon and the wider Fediverse love the hashtag as it allows humans to retain control of their feeds 🥰

You can use hashtags to label a post with its main topics. More info about adding hashtags at https://fedi.tips/what-are-hashtags-how-do-i-use-them-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

You can follow hashtags to see posts labelled with those tags in your feed. More info at https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-follow-hashtags-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

#FediTips #Hashtags

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ormai
@ormai@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@FediTips@growyourown.services UpperCamelCase is also a thing apparently https://doc.rust-lang.org/style-guide/advice.html#names

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Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc
@deborahh@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@FediTips "Corporate social networks are trying to kill the hashtag" ? Really? 😥

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Sebastian Blanco
@SebastianBlanco@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@FediTips #HellYes

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Mike. 🩼🇨🇦
@MikeImBack@disabled.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

@FediTips cant they just set up bots to push hashtags like # Macdonalds or # Wendy's??? 9 out of the top 10 trending hashtags could be ads!

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Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services replied  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

@MikeImBack

The trending page isn't the problem as that's trivial to fake, the problem from their POV was people using and following hashtags as it bypassed their control.

For example I saw some people who came here when Instagram switched off hashtag following last year, because this was one of the ways they kept in touch with people.

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Mike. 🩼🇨🇦
@MikeImBack@disabled.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@FediTips Huh...I guess hashtags are more powerful than I thought. It's pretty handy with no algorithm

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Roy -- the dull one
@oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

@FediTips

Great advice, as usual, Fedi.tips ! And thanks for including a hint about how to help visually impaired people when you add a hashtag.

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Liam Hughes
@wingedassault@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago

@FediTips Thanks for this informative post. It never occurred to me to use CamelCase for people with screen readers.

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago

@FediTips yes!

Regarding your final point in the piece about PascalCase hashtags:

https://markwrites.io/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone/

Mark W.rites

Mark W.rites - Hashtag Accessibility, by Everyone for Everyone

My post about hashtag accessibility on Mastodon (and later LinkedIn) got a lot of attention. There were so many replies from people who didn’t know about the a…
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@markwyner@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago

@FediTips yes!

Regarding your final point in the piece about PascalCase hashtags:

https://markwrites.io/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone/

Mark W.rites

Mark W.rites - Hashtag Accessibility, by Everyone for Everyone

My post about hashtag accessibility on Mastodon (and later LinkedIn) got a lot of attention. There were so many replies from people who didn’t know about the a…
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@transicorn@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago

@FediTips You can have featured hashtags here on your profile, but if you want to get a bit more creative with it and have more than 5, you can use an external service like linktree and do something like i've done with them for any topic you'd like to make discoverable in that way.

https://mastodon.social/@transicorn/115428184719312347

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Michael Weinhold
@weinhold@ieji.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

@FediTips

Aaaaand almost as important for your mental well-being: You can very well mute hashtags! 😇✨

#Hashtags

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Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services replied  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

@weinhold

True! 👍

For anyone wondering how to do this, there's a guide to using filters at https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon/

https://fedi.tips

Filtering your Mastodon timeline to automatically hide posts containing certain words, phrases, hashtags, links or emoji

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
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@jayfell@social.trom.tf replied  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago
@weinhold @FediTips is there a similar way to hiding hashtags on Friendica?
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