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p.s. Please don't harass artists who have relevant hashtag lists on the end of their posts. Many are low income people dependent on selling art, and need to use multiple variant tags simply to be seen at all.

Including relevant tags at the end of a post is not spamming, it's just the consequence of an exact-tag-only search system.

This isn't Twitter, there is no general search. The actual content of posts is invisible to people searching, so people have to use tags to make up for this.

Domando Al Lobo

@feditips and it's important to use capital letters for blind people who use readers. #AltText is better than #alttext #disabled #disability

kjuh :verified_coffee:

@feditips Please don’t harass anyone for anything at all! If you don’t like someone’s posts, either tolerate them (if you can), engage in constructive dialogue (if at all possible), block (if none of the above are possible or effective) and/or report them (if you have good reason to do so).

FediTips has moved!

p.p.s. Lower or upper case does NOT matter for discovery, #WaterColour and #Watercolour are treated exactly the same by the search system. You do NOT need to do variations for case!

However, if a tag contains multiple words you should mark the first letter of each word with upper case letters such as #DogsOfMastodon as this allows screen readers to read each word out aloud.

Sabrina Web :privacypride:

@feditips yes, this is something that I can understand. What I don't like is when people use totally unrelated random hashtags, just for visibility, like in another social network who used to have a bird as its logo. But I don't harass them. I block them, period.

Mighty Orbot

Remember, folks: this is an intentional design decision. Building #Mastodon with hashtag support but no full-text search gives you the choice about whether YOUR toots will be searchable, and how.

#PowerToTheTooters

Lizard

@feditips Lemme trim that down a bit:
Please don't harass artists. :)

the roamer

@feditips

I have sympathy for the situation of an artist in need of reaching a wide audience. If someone posts an image of a painting, say, and they add a handful of hashtags that are all relevant and non-redundant, I can't imagine many will complain.

Walls of almost identical hashtags just to be picked up by those too lazy to use variants of their keyword? That strikes me as bad taste. Nobody should be harrassed, but an unfollow or block seem the natural response. Does the artist want that?

My Name is Gordo

@feditips Why would anybody harass someone for using hashtags correctly?

Sarcasmo

@feditips FWIW there is a new-ish Mastodon search tool for those who wish to opt in: https://tootfinder.ch/

#Tootfinder

Jim DeVona

@feditips As an artist new to Mastodon this is a helpful tip indeed!

Discovering BTS⁷ - 마리온

@feditips Thank you for sharing that. I was unaware of people complaining about this type of post.

Glitch

@feditips massive facepalm that people are harassing artists over that, seeing as it feels like pretty good etiquette overall.

Olav

@feditips hashtags are preferred at the end because otherwise the screen reader " I did hashtag monochrome hashtag street hashtag photography in hashtag [city] "
Selling or not, unless you're #MastodonFamous you are, as you say, invisible without them