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On Mastodon I follow hashtags more than individual people.
That’s fair enough. Have seen the same behavior on tumblr and the like.
I’ve found myself wondering if folks aren’t slapping on innappropriate tags or none at all, losing out on content?
I suppose I also never gave this approach an honest shot. Thinking I’ll try this. Thanks!
The other extreme is people adding 20-odd tags to a post. If I could filter out posts with more than a given number of tags (5 or 6 would be about right), I would.
I've gotten this suggestion too but honestly it made mastodon a horrible experience for me. I'd get personal emotional comments from every random John about a subject, often barely relevant too because they'd just tag literally dozen(s) of hashtags in their every post. I had to start ignoring people one by one but it's just not feasible when its one of the more popular tags, they kept coming and coming.
A combination of follow hashtags, filter words and block people works quite well for Mastodon.
That's what I've been doing, but it's just not the same