Paul Chambers🚧

Looks like Mastodon Dev is planning to take hashtags at the end of a post and put them in a different spot for cleaner reading & a less spammy look.

#MastoAdmin

  Change hashtags at the end of the post to render out-of-band
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26260

Change hashtags at the end of the post to render out-of-band by Gargron · Pull Request #26260 · mastodon/mastodon

People will often put all of the hashtags relevant to the post at the end of the post, but it looks spammy. Others avoid using hashtags this way because it looks spammy, and therefore lose out on d...

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Aug 2, 2023 at 2:01pmWeb
Show threaddeltatux Aug 2, 2023
@paul That's actually not a bad idea, makes it a lot cleaner by doing that. #mastoadmin
Show threadsparseMatrix 📻Aug 2, 2023

@paul

If they're going to do this, they really ought to just deprecate the manual use of hashtags at all, and parse them out of the text directly with a word counting algorithm, and make them automatic.

Hash tags aren't magic; their just words preselected as search terms.

Show threadBakersRelayAug 2, 2023
@paul Have to say not really happy about that. When you’re scanning emergency info it’s just one more thing to stop your eye. Do you think it’d make things easier on the Alt Text readers?
Show threadPaul Chambers🚧Aug 2, 2023

@BakerRL75

I don't know enough about Alt Text readers to make a judgement

Show threadBrian DearAug 2, 2023

@paul Not a fan. Mastodon feeds will look far more cluttered. Hashtags don't need separate callouts; they're fine as-is at the bottom of a toot.

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