mastodon is the only platform where iโ€™ve had people actively tell me multiple times โ€œhey try using hashtags!โ€

i will never use hashtags

@jacqueline

Well, the benefit here is that people can follow a tag, meaning they encounter your stuff based on what they're interested in even if they hadn't known about your account previously. But I get the desire not to use them. For the most part I don't either.

@amin @jacqueline what if I don't want people who hadn't previously known about my account to encounter my stuff? What then?