You know what tags are, right? It’s a tag, denoted with the hash symbol.
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ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 1 week agoI do not understand hashtags. My GF has tried to explain it to me and I just don’t get it. Maybe I am too old.
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
baronvonj@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It adds searchable metadata to a post. Like if you go in Netflix and search for an actor or browse a genre. So I can follow #rugby without having to follow every single person posting about rugby, and I will see all posts that have that tag. Then I can find individual people within that topic to follow and interact with directly.
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brian@piefed.social 1 week ago
Exactly this, and the other benefit of hashtags (at least on some apps for Mastodon) is that you can mute them. So, if you’re following someone whose posts you enjoy, except their posts about #rugby, you can mute those posts and not see any of them. I find it a really great way to keep my feed as only those things I’d prefer to see.