TamDid you know that if you capitalize each word in a multi-word hashtag, #ScreenReaders can read them as words, but if you leave them lowercase, they can't? Well, now you know! So, for #accessibility, please capitalize words when there's more than one in a hashtag.
oshy@Tam5 Yee, that kinda thing is hard on people with screenreaders and it's also just generally not a great feature for readability
Personally I just recommend not using Hashtags
Personally I just recommend not using Hashtags
Sophoife@ocean @Tam5 That's an interesting point of view for someone using Mastodon, as searches only work with #Hashtags not with general terms, apparently.
Some of us migrants have been doing our best to use #CamelCase even on the bird app, and to use alt text for images too.
@Tam5 @ocean Oh that makes a lot of sense. All the newbie guides I've seen have suggested #CamelCase and hashtags, but I know from IRC back in the day that users of anything tend to find their comfy place and comfy way of things and then (certainly in my case) get surprised when they find out not everyone does it how they do. I was part of a group that was horrified when it discovered there were peeps on IRC who were not always kind or polite. Ah the innocent days...
rest in peace freenode
undead enby of the apocalypse@Tam5 @ocean @Sophoife I think I remember a shitpost that was going around some time ago (long before the twitter stuff) in german about the differences between queer leftist german mastodon and mainstream centrist german mastodon that included something about how they use hashtags, while we don’t. I guess this is a perfect example of the cultural differences that existed on different parts of pre-twitter-trashfire mastodon
@enby_of_the_apocalypse @ocean @Sophoife This seems to really vary a lot. The folks who told me that people use a lot of hashtags here have also been here for a while. Maybe it depends on the culture of an instance and the topics folks want to discuss.
That said, at least on Mastodon it's easy to not pay attention to hashtags if someone doesn't want to see them. Twitter often put them in the feed, regardless.
Disco Sexual@ocean @Sophoife @Tam5 oh that is interesting. I've never really been one for microblogging to begin with, so this is all pretty new to me.
I've personally been getting a lot out of clicking on hashtags, but I understand that after a while the folks and groups one follows will probably settle into a stable number.
I love hearing more about early mastodon and its philosophy. We recent members still have a lot to learn, I see.
davidak@ocean hashtags are essential here to find relevant posts and people. please use them