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MaryPot

@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.

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Mailia

@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.

Flit 🦊 πŸ”₯

@Mailia @MaryPot @human3500 @Mastodon Admittedly I do this a little bit, just not excessively like you demonstrated haha

MaryPot

@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

Kenneth J. Jaeger

@Mailia
I use lots of #hashtags on here all the time, so I must really look like a #twat :eyeroll:
@MaryPot @flit @human3500 @Mastodon

CautionWIP πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@MaryPot @flit @human3500 @Mastodon the specific functionality of showing the popularity of a given tag while you’re entering it seems (as far as I’ve seen so far) restricted to using the web interface, and a lot of people are on-boarding via any of the assorted apps. :(

MaryPot

@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? πŸ™‚

CautionWIP πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@MaryPot @flit @human3500 @Mastodon

I use Ice Cubes, which does in fact implement it. I presume it pulls it from the individual user’s 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.

MaryPot

@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.

MaryPot

@cautionwip @flit @human3500 @Mastodon

Did you type in "sf" or #sf?
The web interface only reacts to #.

CautionWIP πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@MaryPot @flit @human3500 @Mastodon I typed it in with the hashtag, but not in my reply, as I didn’t feel it polite to suddenly spam our conversation at everybody searching that hashtag. :)

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