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Re. the second "couldn’t find people or interests" group, I viscerally feel this. I set up an alt-account to indulge in therapeutic socialising around the (big) football (soccer) team I follow. The experience has been excruciatingly difficult in many ways. It's been a job. I'm two week into relentless *work* to drum up even a little consistent sociability. It's been almost zero fun. If I were normal, I'd have given up on day two. Two idea I think would make it easier (cont)... 12 comments
2. I'd like to be able to search a hashtag and get back a list of accounts that have used that hashtag within x days or have that tag in their profile. Ordered by "frecency". I'd then like to drill in to see their tagged posts. Perhaps the biggest difficulty I've found on my alt-account is that even though I've been through the pain of finding and following around 200 people who have used a relevant tag, my timeline is frustratingly irrelevant to the point of being chaotic. (cont)... So I have to resort to clicking about to manually search for my hashtags. Which yields better results. But then I'm missing the stuff people don't tag (which is a lot). So yeah, it's very difficult. I'd also say it's all very time bound. Posting stuff while America sleeps means you're posting into the void, because those posts aren't surfaced by an algo in the morning. A tactic I've often used there is to boost my own posts to give them a second wind. @charlesroper @kissane The world is a big place, and not a "void". If the US is important to you, certainly, time your posts, but there are other timezones with interesting people in them.  @charlesroper @kissane  @charlesroper @kissane also an "explore"-like function that let's you see recent popular posts limited to specific hashtags, or any of the hashtags you follow. @naught101@mastodon.social @charlesroper@indieweb.social @kissane@mas.to #Firefish (f. #Calckey), #Misskey, have that, it's called antenna(s). @charlesroper @kissane My problem has been figuring out what hashtag to use because not everyone agrees. And I feel like the suggested hashtags aren't very usable until you're almost done typing the whole word. Without including the actual "#" , is it SuperBowl2024 or SuperBowlLVIII? SuperBowlAds or SuperBowlCommercials? Oscars or AcademyAwards? TheMandalorian or Mandalorian? Sometimes, my posts end up a parade of hashtags to cover alternate versions, and that's no fun and takes space.  @cstephens2 @charlesroper @kissane To be fair, that's a problem with all Social Media. The most unified hashtags are the ones promoted by the companies involved. Like Disney might post about #MandalorianSeason3 while you might have posted about #TheMandalorianS3 Disney's will be more popular, most likely. @kinyutaka @charlesroper @kissane Of the social media I use, I've found Instagram to be the easiest because they tell me what I've used before and also come up with the most popular ones as suggestions, so I can choose. That almost never worked for me on Twitter. And it's not working for me on here, even hashtags I've used. @cstephens2 @charlesroper @kissane I have had mixed reactions on my hashtags. System will sometimes capitalize them, and sometimes not. Sometimes they don't fill in when I start typing. @cstephens2 @charlesroper @kissane It's possible to figure out which ones to use if you go to the Explore section and then put various hashtags into the search to find out which version is the most popular. Sometimes I do that after I've posted something, and then I edit them in. Not a perfect solution by any means, it definitely should be streamlined into the actual posting interface. |
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1. Hashtags are indeed essential in the absence of an algorithm. But people either forget to use them, or just don't because they've been conditioned not to. It would help enormously to have a mechanism by which we could auto-tag posts; i.e. insert one of more tags quickly based on what I'm posting about. In addition, it would help if tags copied into replies, like handles do.
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