Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@Joker @admin as i understand it hashtags work by basically filtering the federated timeline, so whether you follow the person shouldn’t effect whether any particular post shows up

that said, this can actually be pretty handy in some circumstances — eg if you’re promoting the #Mosstodon hashtag, you don’t want that post to *actually* show up in the tag! bc people who’ve searched it already know it exists, they’re looking for the actual moss photos. so setting to unlisted lets you create a link to the tag without clogging said tag your metaposting

@lookitmychicken bible teaching his coworkers physics backstage at KinnPorsche world tour on an actual entire whiteboard broke my brain

@godtributes ????

@Rozzychan i find it incredibly funny that KimChay is the least problematic couple bc in any other show there would be SO much drama about them 😆

@Lotl_Love this list is a great start! a few more fediquette tips:

- “are boosts ok?” is a very normal question on fedi — don’t be afraid to ask if you’re not sure!
- public posts go to the public timelines (local and federated) & show up in hashtags while unlisted posts do not. This seems like a small difference but it has a lot of potential uses! eg. for long threads many people set their first post to public and the rest to unlisted, esp if they’re on a smaller instance where the local tl runs slowly. or if you want to write a post reccomending people use the #introduction hashtag, setting that post to unlisted will keep it from clogging the tag with posts that aren’t *actual* introductions (also, if you haven’t already, use the introduction tag!)
- check peoples profiles & pinned posts before following, some people have boundaries set in there for follows that you should respect. its v normal for newcomers, esp during big migration waves like this, to want to follow as many people as possible to build their social networks. that is a good impulse! but it shouldn’t get in the way of respecting people who are just trying to quietly live their lives on fedi

@ljwrites @Mayana @WanderingBeekeeper there are definitely accounts like @/lunastation@wandering.shop on the shop who post to the local timeline & are far more brandy than O Westin? Also worth noting that the instance has changed ownership since 2017, tho Luna predates that transfer

@quirkystreets i access mastodon about 50/50 through the website and through an iOS app (tooot) — hashtags seem to work the same for me either way

@gaylonparsons@mastodon.social is from a much larger server, which usually doesn’t matter but can things like hashtags, so i would expect that is why they’ve gotten different results