Draft:Hashtags

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How to follow hashtags

Mastodon

There are two ways to follow hashtags. Really following them and putting them in a timeline:

To follow a hashtag simply search for it and click on it (hashtags are at the bottom of the search results). Then in the column where the posts of the hashtag appear click the follow button in the top right corner. Done.
Posts of the hashtag will appear in your home timeline like posts of people you follow. You can see a list of all hashtags you follow in the 3 dots menu besides your name (above the posting interface).
Click on a hashtag and you'll be able to unfollow it.

The second option is to put a hashtag or hashtags in a separate timeline. This only works in the advanced interface (enable in settings).
Search for a hashtag and click on it. In the top right corner, besides the follow button, you'll see a "show settings" button. Click on it and then on "Pin". Click on it again to add additional hashtags to the column or move the column.
If you don't want to "follow" a hashtag that way anymore just unpin the column in the top right corner.

(streams), Forte

(streams) and Forte handle a lot through permissions. Following hashtags is no exception: It basically means to grant everyone permission to send you posts containing one or multiple certain hashtags, regardless of whether or not they're connected with you.

And so, the hashtag following settings can be found under Channel Settings (/settings) and there under Security and Privacy. There is a text field labelled, "Accept messages from strangers which include any of the following hashtags". If you want to follow certain tags, enter them there, separated with a comma, without the # character.

In order to keep hashtag spammers out, the field below, "Unless more than this many hashtags are used", limits the number of hashtags which a post is allowed to have to be imported by discovered hashtags. It defaults to 20; 0 means there shall be no limit.

Once you've entered some tags, if you go to your stream (/stream) and open the Stream Filters, you'll discover a "Followed Hashtags" entry at the bottom. If you open it, you'll find each of your "followed" hashtags listed individually. You can now use them to filter your stream as well.

List of common hashtags

Weekdays

Monday:

• Mondog
• MonochromeMonday

Tuesday:

• TongueOutTuesday

Wednesday:

• WerewolfWednesday

Thursday

• ThickTrunkThursday
• ThrowbackThursday

Friday:

• FollowFriday
• WindowFriday, FensterFreitag
• FungiFriday
• FineFemmeFriday

Saturday:

• Caturday

Sunday:

• SilentSunday

Accessibility

• Alt4Me, AltText4Me
  Added as a request for the community to provide alt-text. Follow this if you like to write alt-texts for others.
• Alt4U, Alt4You, AltText4U, AltText4U
  Added to posts that contain alt-text for someone else's image.

Nature

• MossTodon
• Lichensubscribe
• Bloomscrolling
• Sporespondance
• MothTodon, Mothstodon
• ButterFlying 🆕

The Fediverse itself

• FediAdmin
  Followed by lots of admins.
• FediTips
• FediMeme, FediverseMeme
  For meme posts about the Fediverse.
• Fediblock
  Followed by lots of admins. Use this only to ask for an actor or an instance to be Fediblocked!
• FediblockMeta
  Followed by lots of admins. Only use this to discuss Fediblocks and even then only sparingly.

Project/application-specific

Mastodon:

• MastoAdmin
  Followed by lots of admins.
• Mastodaoine
  For Irish content on Mastodon.
• NotOnlyMastodon, FediverseIsNotMastodon, MastodonIsNotTheFediverse, NichtNurMastodon
  For posts and comments that make clear that the Fediverse is not only Mastodon.

Hubzilla:

• ContentWarning, NSFW
  The default entries in the "NSFW" content-warning filter app.

(streams), Forte:

• ContentWarning
  One of the default entries in the "NSFW" content-warning filter app.
• NSFW
  When sent from (streams) or Forte, it makes Mastodon blank all images embedded in the post out; also one of the default entries in the "NSFW" content-warning app.
• Sensitive
  When sent from (streams) or Forte, it makes Mastodon blank all images embedded in the post out.
• ⚠️
  Suggested by the (streams) creator for sensitive content.
• ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
  Suggested by the (streams) creator for very sensitive content.

Other

• Introduction, NewHere, NeuHier
• FollowerPower
• AskFedi, FediHelp
• MutualAid