Ramin Honary on Nostr: ## Hashtag your posts for finding, AND for filtering-out Use **specific** hashtags to ...
## Hashtag your posts for finding, AND for filtering-out
Use **specific** hashtags to make your posts easier to find by search. Use **general** hashtags to make your posts easier to ignore by people who are not interested. Here are some general hashtags followed by specific ones they might cover:
- **tech:** computers, software, internet
- **internet:** Fediverse, Mozilla, WebBrowser, ActivityPub, Mastodon, PeerTube, Akkoma, Pleroma, Lemmy
- **software:** Linux, BSD, Emacs, foss, UnixPorn, ProgrammingLanguage, Scheme, Lisp, Python, JavaScript
- **computers:** RetroComputing, SBC, Laptop, SmartPhone, MechanicalKeyboard, WiFi, BlueTooth
From now on I will also try to only boost properly marked posts, since followers will see what I boost as well. If I *really* want to boost your post and it isn't hash-tagged, I will link your post.
What prompted me to do this was that I was just talking with one of my online buddies, and she was saying how difficult it is on Mastodon to filter-out computer and tech-related posts. She wants to follow people like me and many others, but we have a tendency to post mostly about tech and computers. And since Mastodon is unfortunately still fairly niche and used mostly by tech-lovers, it is nearly impossible for her to filter out all the tech-related posts, no matter how many hashtag filters she sets up.
So what I am going to do, and I recommend you (dear reader) do the same, is always include very general hashtags that make it easier to filter out my post, along with more specific hashtags so people interested might find it.
#Netiquette #Fediverse
Use **specific** hashtags to make your posts easier to find by search. Use **general** hashtags to make your posts easier to ignore by people who are not interested. Here are some general hashtags followed by specific ones they might cover:
- **tech:** computers, software, internet
- **internet:** Fediverse, Mozilla, WebBrowser, ActivityPub, Mastodon, PeerTube, Akkoma, Pleroma, Lemmy
- **software:** Linux, BSD, Emacs, foss, UnixPorn, ProgrammingLanguage, Scheme, Lisp, Python, JavaScript
- **computers:** RetroComputing, SBC, Laptop, SmartPhone, MechanicalKeyboard, WiFi, BlueTooth
From now on I will also try to only boost properly marked posts, since followers will see what I boost as well. If I *really* want to boost your post and it isn't hash-tagged, I will link your post.
What prompted me to do this was that I was just talking with one of my online buddies, and she was saying how difficult it is on Mastodon to filter-out computer and tech-related posts. She wants to follow people like me and many others, but we have a tendency to post mostly about tech and computers. And since Mastodon is unfortunately still fairly niche and used mostly by tech-lovers, it is nearly impossible for her to filter out all the tech-related posts, no matter how many hashtag filters she sets up.
So what I am going to do, and I recommend you (dear reader) do the same, is always include very general hashtags that make it easier to filter out my post, along with more specific hashtags so people interested might find it.
#Netiquette #Fediverse