Mastodawn

How do you use hashtags on Fedi (if at all)?
(Please boost for reach. I'm intentionally not using hashtags in this post because that would obviously bias the sample horribly.)

I regularly put hashtags in my posts

30.5%

I regularly search for info using hashtags

20.4%

I follow hashtags and find it useful

32.3%

I don't use hashtags much if at all

16.8%

Poll ended at Feb 25 at 6:06pm.

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DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)Feb 22

@internic
I tried hashtag searching when I was new-ish here, and it didn't work out for me, so I've ignored them since.

It's possible I just didn't know what I was doing; sometimes I think I should look into it again.

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Nick Feb 22

@dougmerritt I try to use them sometimes, but my experience has been similar to yours; they don't seem to work very well for me. My perception is that most people don't actually use them, so I was curious to get some (admittedly unscientific) data on that.

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Nick

@dougmerritt Coming at it from a different angle, I don't know if it's easy to get statistics like what proportion of posts from a server or set of servers include hashtags.