I mostly really like Mastodon, especially as a tool for listening to and interacting with the developer community. But the federated bit still bites me, given that I joined at a time when there was a mass migration off of Tw*tter and some of the more popular instances were closed to new accounts. I’m finding that my instance does not support things like editing posts (a thing that other users seem to think is universal!), and I'll be darned if I can figure out how to follow a hashtag.

@lorihc

I can help a little maybe! There's a "Preferences" section called "Followed Hashtags", which is what you want. "Preferences" always seems to open to the "Appearance" section, so it looks like that's all there is, but if you find the right hot-dog-menu thing to click, you can get the menu with all the sections.

@lorihc
(All of that is in the qoto web interface, which is all I use; in other clients, I dunno!)

@lorihc
Darn wait that's wrong, lol. It's under "Following and Followers" or something like that, which is a *peer* of Preferences, but the only way I know of to get to it is via the Preferences menu. Then under that there's a "Following Hashtags".

Under "Preferences" there's a "Favorite Hashtags" which seems to be... something else.

@ceoln AHA! Found it. So not "Favourite hashtags," but "Follows and subscriptions > Following hashtags.”