FediTips has moved!Nov 16, 2022

The latest Mastodon update lets you follow hashtags. When you follow, posts with a tag appear in your timeline automatically.

Try following #Gardening to make posts about gardening appear in your timeline.

This can be REALLY useful for discovering interesting accounts.

To follow a hashtag:
1. Log in through your server's website
2. Search for hashtag
3. Click it to see its results
4. Click on 👤+ icon in top right (click again to unfollow)

Posts from followed tags are visible in the apps too.

Show threadrob HAS MOVEDNov 16, 2022
@feditips Would be great in future to have more control over following hashtags; e.g., an option to follow hashtags in a list, instead of in the home timeline.
Show threadFrankenGFXNov 17, 2022

@stokes @feditips you can set up a separate timeline with hashtags only.

Go to preferecences; then appearance. Click ”advanced views. Now when you seach for a hashtag, click the settings icon and then pin. The timeline will appear.

To add more tags, click the settings icon of that newly created timeline and click ”add more hashtags”.

Show threadrob HAS MOVEDNov 17, 2022
@FrankenGraphics @feditips Ah! Great tip, thanks. Will this not also put posts with that hashtag in my home timeline as well? If not, that's exactly what I was after! Thanks again.
Show threadrob HAS MOVEDNov 17, 2022
@FrankenGraphics @feditips Oh! Pin the hashtag timeline but don't follow it. Just realised. Perfect, thank you!
Show threadFrankenGFX
@stokes @feditips yeah exactly! It’s a greatway to deal with tags you’re interested in, but are too popular/active to follow in your main timeline
Nov 17, 2022 at 11:49amWeb