@meganmariehart@mastodon.social
2026-02-10 06:37 UTC
Replies (24)
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@Sevapopov@mastodon.ml 2026-02-10 07:10
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social I never use hashtags on Mastodon since I forgot that they were used in Twitter. They are not used in Telegram. In case of Russian mastodon there are 2 bots that boost your posts if they are written in russian. I have no idea how they are boosted if they are written in English and how, let's say, a person would find somebody to follow in Mastodon if he only registered and wants to find something to read and interact with.
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@brisingr05@freeradical.zone 2026-02-10 09:03
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social Saw this in the Trending section.
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@mdione@en.osm.town 2026-02-10 09:10
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social Edit: oh, my instance only had your first toot. The other 6 appeared only once I replied here. Kinda ignore. Original: could you edit this toot when you're done? I'm interested, but if I bookmark it, it'll just go into the how-come-it-has-not-toppled-yet pile of to-reads :-G
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@mdione@en.osm.town 2026-02-10 09:18
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social I once run an experiment similar to yours. I asked people to boost a toot with a URL to a webserver I controlled, no hashtags either. It got <3k boosts. Yours will probably get similar numbers. At that point, IIRC, the Fedi (or was it just Mastodon?) was ~2M accounts, so it reached ~15% of the net. I wrote abut it here: https://www.grulic.org.ar/~mdione/glob/posts/the-mastodon-effect-meta-discussion/ 1/
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@Heterokromia@aus.social 2026-02-10 10:36
RE: https://mastodon.social/@meganmariehart/116044953904582813 @meganmariehart@mastodon.social never "quote"d before. Thanks.
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@maharanisantoso@mastodon.social 2026-02-10 10:49
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social That's a great question! It's interesting to see how different strategies impact reach. I'm really curious about your findings—what have you noticed so far? 😊
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@stux@mstdn.social 2026-02-10 11:25
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social challenge accepted :ed_grin: :boost_animated:
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@futurebird@sauropods.win 2026-02-10 11:36
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social Maybe I'm very strange but my metric for a post "doing well" is replies not likes or boosts. A good post spawns a million threads and subthreads. However, I'm on social media to ... socialize (crazy right?) People who view social media as a publicity tool don't reply to posts, they don't even read their own replies. It's like they aren't even here. Sad that on places like X/twitter replies were seen as a negative: a sign that people were angry at you. Dysfunctional.
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@Ambulocetus@mefi.social 2026-02-10 11:50
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social I usually forget to use hashtags, and my posts don't get a lot of views. Of course anecdotes are not data.
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@jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu 2026-02-10 12:02
@@meganmariehart@mastodon.social well the more people you get in contact to the higher the possibility some of them are ungood .. :-)
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@KimSJ@mastodon.social 2026-02-10 12:32
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social I think about “engagement” differently on Mastodon. Before the Elon-gation of Twitter I had more than 12k5 followers there (I left at that point!) Here I have fewer than a quarter of that number, but I feel far more engaged. People scrolling past one’s Tweets without even glancing at them counted as being ‘seen’ — a meaningless statistic!
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@cpsask@techhub.social 2026-02-10 12:40
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social Like many others, I saw your boost without any hashtags. I usually forget to use hashtags and often end up shouting into the wind. But it is ok, I’m as introverted on-line as in person. A large response would likely overwhelm me - 😀 Good luck convincing your group.
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@Guillotine_Jones@beige.party 2026-02-10 12:47
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social I see your post, Megan.
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@Andii@climatejustice.social 2026-02-10 13:15
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social I often use em. But sometimes I don't often because I can't think of a suitable one for the post being composed.
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@iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org 2026-02-10 13:21
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social the underlying protocol of Fediverse is not dependent on any tags. strictly saying it does not have tags at all. it works like email and delivery depends on user addresses, like username+servername. if a connected user reposts or comments some post in Fediverse, there's a chance that his followers get a copy of the original post too, so posts spread across the different servers on Fediverse. some platforms (like Mastodon) allow subscription to tags and some filtering on tags. others do not offer that features. but tags often may be used in seatch engines on servers and people may sort out messages with tags for easier search.
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@geonz@mathstodon.xyz 2026-02-10 13:31
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social I'm not sure what this is asking. Am I seeing *this* post that I am replying to without hashtags? Yes.
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@JoyceHumphreys@mastodonapp.uk 2026-02-10 15:35
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social I’ve seen and I don’t follow you. Boosted by someone in my feed.
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@naga@toot.cat 2026-02-10 16:09
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social I've read your original thread and many of the replies (including some of the rude ones). I'm sincerely curious about something, though, and if you've said I missed it. Is there a downside to using hashtags that I'm not seeing? Maybe not a hashtag soup, but just, say, "# opera" at the end?
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@acm_redfox@jawns.club 2026-02-10 16:11
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social not boosting or quoting, but responding for the count
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@kentenmakto@mastodon.ie 2026-02-10 17:04
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social About the only time I use hashtags is for my Darkover writeups (I do not call them reviews): * (hash) Darkover so people can find, subscribe - or block! them * (hash) bookstodon so the Bookstodon bot catches and boosts them. If the English of a post is littered with Blue Words, my eye will usually skip over it as I've come to expect such posts to be unusually self-important.
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@foobarsoft@mastodon.social 2026-02-10 17:23
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social Frankly hashtags annoy me. The idea is good. I can see using one or two. But 99.9% of posts seem to use either 0 or 40. And at that point it’s just massive visual noise that adds nothing for me. If they were out of band they’d be better. I, selfishly, don’t have a lot of interest in making things better for people who want to just spam them on every post to try and get engagement.
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@kagan@wandering.shop 2026-02-10 19:21
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social Like many others, not boosting or quoting, but commenting here to add to the count. I've now seen this boosted into my feed by two different folks I follow.
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@virtuosew@mathstodon.xyz 2026-02-11 00:05
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social Your post was boosted into my feed by someone I follow. For what it's worth, I think the thing people trained on other social media struggle with about the Fedi is that it's not instant. A post on the Fedi doesn't "go viral" and blast through to everywhere in nothing flat. It burbles on for days, sometimes months, as gradually daisychains out from where it started. So they feel they've had no reach or no interaction, when really they just stopped counting too soon!
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@imcdowall@mastodon.social 2026-02-11 20:31
@meganmariehart@mastodon.social regarding hashtags or not - I follow many hashtags for specific interests. If you can find a good (i.e. relevant, not spammy, many followers) then they will work well for you. Otherwise, you rely on follower networks. Regarding the burden on running your own instance - I haven't (yet) set up my own fedi instance (although I have tinkered with the code for some) but I think it needs more resources and more work than a bare bones website.