ono@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Please don’t ever do that.
It bombards everyone with noise and wastes everyone’s screen space. (Much like abusing a username field by adding your life story to it.)
If people currently on a primitive platform want to participate in this one, they should learn to use the tools, or at least respect the local conventions.
Chozo@kbin.social 1 year ago
@ono
I mean, isn't that kind of the point of following hashtags on Mastodon in the first place, to see content relevant to that topic?
@youshouldknow @DannyBoy
DannyBoy@mastodon.ie 1 year ago
@Chozo @youshouldknow @ono Finally someone gets it!!!
Hashtags in Mastodon is what allows discoverability to posts. So if you wanna make your posts indexable you'll need them.
Mastodon doesn't index by words, just only by hashtags.
So if you make a post about cats, but you don't add the hashtag "cats" your post is like it wasn't post at all. No one can see it, besides yourself and your followers. Also I don't get why people all it spam, if it goes at the end. Easy to ignore.
CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
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