Do you follow a hashtag?
Yes
66.2%
No
25.2%
I did not know that was possible
8.6%
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@bean I need like a hashtag recommender. Either it gets like 1 post a month or it entirely dominates your feed. Hard to pick out what's cool.
@bean
I think the only one I follow is icanhazpdf, although it is kinda pointless since all the posts with that hashtag that federate to our instance come from the ichazpdf a.gup.pe group which I follow.
@bean No, because it sounds like submitting my feed to a sewage drain. Follow humans, not trends.

@bean I follow interesting people. Sometimes, I will do the search on a hashtag to see what people who I don't follow and are not being boosted by those I follow have to say. Mostly, that's about breaking *news*, not "topic of interest".

I don't object to people hashtagging their posts. I do, of course, object to people whose marketing advisors tell them to add 25* hashtags to their otherwise mundane observations. I generally mute or block in that case.

* = not one of my exaggerations.

@bean yes but it doesn't work because hash tags don't federate super well.