I agree with @thedextriarchy. Shoving as many hashtags into a Mastodon post feels like spam.
Unfortunately, if you want to be discovered on Mastodon, that’s what you got to do.
This Verge article suggests that removing hashtags from the post body could be a solution (à la Tumblr).
But there’s an easier solution: allow full text search.
Almost every other Fediverse service allows this, including Akkoma, Calckey, Friendica, etc.
https://www.theverge.com/23673125/mastodon-separate-tags-hashtag-navigation-accessibility
@atomicpoet @thedextriarchy @fediversenews Yes, Tumblr gets hashtags right. I would hate to lose them altogether, as others have said they provide a bit of structure and a way to identify collections of thought on a topic.
One concern I guess I’d have is if there is no limit or a much higher limit on the number of hashtags that can be entered. Could lead to what basically ends up as ads/spam in your hashtag feeds.
@box464 yeah, I've been seeing such things and it's been really troubling/annoying, people around here posting a wall of hashtags so many of which are unrelated to the actual content.
Such a thing undermines the use of hashtags at all, once they no longer identify their content.
Unfortunately, it seems there is incentive to hashtag pollute like that, and little to push back against it.
Perhaps removing hashtags from the body would make that even worse, hiding the pollution.
@atomicpoet @thedextriarchy @fediversenews
