It is common on Mastodon to append a bunch of hashtags to the end of a post. I’ve added a new feature in Micro.blog to help wrangle these. Here’s a screenshot from the Account page:
This doesn’t affect inline hashtags, only hashtags at the end if they’re in their own paragraph.
@manton LOVE this!! If only Bluesky had this feature…
Edit: as a platform; didn’t mean bsky posts on micro.blog
@manton this is also a feature of Mastodon but not something that would generate more of them specifically from Mastodon.
@vmstan Not really the same thing, Mastodon styles the hashtags differently, it doesn’t hide them. Because of the way search and discovery works in Mastodon, I think extra hashtags are just more common there than other platforms.
@manton Thanks for this. I’ve been rethinking my hashtag usage lately. Not just for aesthetics, but because trolls increasingly weaponize hashtags to find posts and send vile, targeted responses. It’s unfortunate, since hashtags used to be helpful for community discoverability.
@mlm361 Yeah, it’s a tricky problem. Hashtags inevitable lead to “popular” hashtags which then lead to people jumping into debates with people they’re weren’t following.
@manton this reminds me of my favorite filter on Tweetbot that I had for many years: a regex that counted hashtags and filtered anything with more than 3-4
