Gregory's Server@human3500 @Mastodon A friend of mine found it unusable due to how federation works. They can't find people that talk about what they like (hobby-wise)
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@MaryPot @flit @human3500 @Mastodon Except that only works if #people #post like "Really enjoyed my #badminton training today!" and if you post like that, you look like a #twat.  @Mailia @MaryPot @human3500 @Mastodon Admittedly I do this a little bit, just not excessively like you demonstrated haha  @Mailia @flit @human3500 @Mastodon There were 2 posts about #badminton the past week. You were one, the other one was from a twat - according to you. FYI - There are no rules here about posting, as long as you aren't hating on people etc. So anyone can post about their day, their week, their dog or the weather. They are NOT twats for doing that! In fact, I think you are a twat with that attitude. There is a handy mute feature, and even a block feature. Use those and stop hating, please  @MaryPot @flit @human3500 @Mastodon the specific functionality of showing the popularity of a given tag while youβre entering it seems (as far as Iβve seen so far) restricted to using the web interface, and a lot of people are on-boarding via any of the assorted apps. :( @cautionwip @flit @human3500 @Mastodon I find it a very useful feature. Both the list of variants and the number of tweets (if any). Maybe the app-makers would do well to implement it? π @MaryPot @flit @human3500 @Mastodon I use Ice Cubes, which does in fact implement it. I presume it pulls it from the individual userβs instance, but for all I know, they use some funky averaging of numbers pulled from a variety of large instances. See img below as the result of me entering # sf. @cautionwip @flit @human3500 @Mastodon I suspect it pulls it from the instance. I have 2 accounts these days, on 2 instances... 1 pretty big and a new one with less than 20 users. When I want to post about one of my fav #'s, the little one shows a lot fewer posts per week than the old one. @cautionwip @flit @human3500 @Mastodon Did you type in "sf" or #sf? @MaryPot @flit @human3500 @Mastodon I typed it in with the hashtag, but not in my reply, as I didnβt feel it polite to suddenly spam our conversation at everybody searching that hashtag. :) @MaryPot @flit @human3500 @Mastodon Thatβs what I said it as # sf. :) @flit @human3500 @Mastodon Do they know about following hashtags? That was the big game-changer for me, here, when I found out I could follow hashtags just like following people--suddenly my feed was alive with posts about the things I enjoy, and I could then follow a lot of people who were posting with those hashtags. @azzageddi @human3500 @Mastodon Following hashtags works great, but it's still going to be limited by federation like everything else. The only reason I can see so many replies and posts is because I use Sengi. I can't see content when searching in the web app, unfortunately. @flit @azzageddi @flit @human3500 @Mastodon Using hashtags like makin' secret codes with friends! ππ We can find n share our compootah giggles n funsies with all da other lil' coders! ππ» #KidCodes #HashtagFun #CompootahSecretCodes @flit @human3500 @Mastodon itβs hard to explain/grasp the functionality of hashtags and hashtag following for those porpoises. @cautionwip @flit @human3500 @Mastodon They aren't unknown. Facebook has been moving more and more toward # use the past couple of years. |
@flit @human3500 @Mastodon
All they need to do is write #myhobby in the search field whatever their hobby is. On the web interface, there is then a person with a plus sign on. Click on that and you are following that hashtag and will see all posts tagged with it in your home feed.
While you write the word(s) behind the #, the web interface even lists matches to the word and longer hashtags beginning with that word - and they tell you how many toots it gets a week.