Curious whether the number of tags in a post affects people's willingness to boost. Is there a point where you think a tag has too many posts for you to comfortably boost it? :boost_ok: #accessibility

Don't get me wrong, I think a great thing about Mastodon and fedi is that you can have as many tags as you like and no bs algorithm will hide it. Nevertheless, I personally find it annoying and become hesitant to put it on people's timelines if every other word is a tag or there's a huge block of them. As a rough rule of thumb 10 tags for me is around the point where there had better be really good reasons to boost--urgent mutual aid is still high priority (generally on my other account, since this is my writing one), but I'm highly unlikely to boost book promotions and art with giant walls of tags. I'm wondering if anyone else is similar.

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@ljwrites i don’t know that i have a direct cap on number of tags, but if it seems like they just threw on a bunch of random tags unrelated to the post content to try and get notes i’m a lot less likely to boost, and obviously posts that have say 10+ tags are a lot more likely to be in that boat than posts that have two

@ljwrites but i dont boost much in general and when i do its mostly posts from people i follow directly (rather than seeing in tags or via other peoples boosts) so i’m maybe not the most useful behavioral model here lol

@Satsuma @ljwrites Same. I used a lot of tags before but I was also trying to reach many smaller aspects of the same unbrella like I wanted someone that’s a reader to know this as well as authors and the like

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