If you want to discover posts and accounts about specific topics, try following hashtags.

When you follow a hashtag, posts with that tag will automatically appear in your main Home feed even if you don't follow the person who posted it. For example, if you follow you will start seeing doggos appear in your main feed.

To follow a hashtag, search for the tag and then click the follow button in the top right corner of the screen.

For more details see fedi.tips/how-do-i-follow-hash

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Leisureguy

@feditips

Very useful tip on how to follow hashtags (and I found the article at the link answered the question I had).

So now I can follow a hashtag. Is there someway to "click the bell" so that the posts appear in my Notifications timeline?

I use that because my Home timeline moves so fast I can't possibly see all the posts.

#hastags #followHashtags #notifications

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podkaynelives

@feditips this is one of the most underrated features in the Fediverse. I love having topics I've chosen just appear in my news feed.

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Daniel Ligon

@feditips

Is there an effort to unify variant tags like #dogs and #dog?

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Cat :happy_anarcat: Lady

@feditips please add a quote feature to boosts!

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/@SilenceEtchedOnAWall@mas.to

@feditips Thank you so much! I've been manually typing in the tag URL, this is so much better. :')

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John Gordon

@feditips Hash tags don’t work on Mastodon. Especially on small instances. Mastodon’s biggest tech problem.

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Michal Špondr

@feditips #Mastodon should support hashtag following in selected instances. On the one hand you advise not to use giant instances like mastodon.social, on the other hand following hashtags on small instances doesn't make sense.

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oldfartjmb

@feditips ok. I tapped on #calckey. No button and no plus sign. Pixel 6 running mastodon app.

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Sylke Krämer

@feditips just FYI I have tested out a group I set up on chirp.social over the last days but so far it only works well with my Mastodon account. It completely ignores everything I do on Pixelfed (two different accounts) which is a shame as I had really hoped to use it from there. I know I can report that problem to the dev on GitHub but that would probably mean having to sign up there first. It also does weird things with Friendica. 🤷🏼

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