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 threadKenny
@Curator Good point. I'm still trying to figure this all out and trying to decide if I need different servers/identities for my different interests. Will hashtags work across blocked/restricted servers....for example like the recent change wrt mastodon.social ?
Nov 15, 2022 at 5:17pmWeb
Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorNov 15, 2022
@kenny If they're silenced, you'll see hashtags from people you follow. If an instance is blocked, you won't see *anything*. Otherwise, hashtags are visible across all servers ^.^
Show threadKennyNov 15, 2022
@Curator Thanks. Got it.