1. Superficial attention seeking is deprioritized (by design) and also somewhat stigmatized by the community. People will not respond well if you try to import Twitter norms. You may not even realize you’re doing it, so be mindful. Be more authentic.

2. I think some longer-term Fediverse users may be feeling a mix of sudden excitement and also what I might call digital displacement or digital realignment (smaller group of long-term users face sudden wave of newcomers reconfiguring social space). Norms may be changing with scale of user base. Curious to hear from longer users about this.

3. Hashtags are the local currency. That’s probably not going to change, at least not any time soon. Even if you don’t like it, take time to understand *why* universal search is not a feature. (Spoiler: it’s not because devs don’t know how to do it.)