Mastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 30, 2022

General advice for people coming over from Twitter and Instagram regarding hashtags:

Hashtags are a useful and important tool here. Clicking on a hashtag will show you results from across different servers, so they're important for federating content and finding people.

There's no need to have loads of tags on your post like Insta to try to catch more engagement, but also you won't be punished for using tags like Twitter.

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Show threadKanrei
@Curator Wait Twitter punishes one when using tags? How so? :o
Apr 30, 2022 at 9:00amWeb
Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 30, 2022
@kanrei I'm not exactly sure, I've just seen people mentioning it - it's some icky thing in their algorithm, like if you use too many tags, or if you use the 'wrong' tags somehow.
Show threadGigawatt121Nov 15, 2022
@Curator @kanrei huh. Never knew that
Show threadKarvMay 6, 2022

@kanrei @Curator Twitter will indeed demote posts that have hashtags in them.

The only reason to ever use hashtags in twitter is for trends, but things like #art are never trending on twitter, trends are just for specific unique things and not wide categories.

Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorMay 6, 2022
@Karv @kanrei Yeah someone else explained further down :(
Show threadcascolyJan 9, 2023
@Karv @kanrei @Curator I always use relevant hashtags and get RT & follows from those hashtags. eg bird images, ai Art, etc