#helloworld! I like it when the #internet is for everyone and am trying out the #fediverse. Please bear with me; I was told I should use lots of #hashtags and am trying out the features.
I'm using #fedilab on Android. I already have a #noobquestion: can I add hashtags in Fedilab to my home feed? Right now I have some hashtags in the top bar but I have to view them all separately. #thx!
How many characters are too many? Can I just go on forever? I heard there was a limit but I still haven't reached it. Maybe it's 600 characters? 1000? I guess at some point the numbers will just go red and I will know what's up. Ok it wasn't 600. I'll just search online then because this is getting way out of hand. ...GREAT SCOTT I'm glad I did: it's 65,535 characters on my instance. #qoto 😂
@sebastian_hos You are free to create your own style and your own voice. I try to keep the character count to "what is necessary to communicate a complete statement of thought, no more, no less. Of course, that is usually more than what Twitter allows. But two things: 1) other sites have smaller limits, and I've no idea how it deals with messages received beyond that, and 2) tl;dr becomes an issue. Breaking it up into "complete thought statements" gives people a chance to digest ONE THING before moving on to respond to that OTHER THING you just said.
Of course, here I'm going to break that guideline to put JUST ONE MORE THING. :)
On "hashtagging", I have seen a suggestion to put those at the end. For people with readers, they hear "Hashtag helloerld! I like it when the hashtag internet is for..."
If you DO NOT think you'll have anyone following you with an audio reader, or it's too distracting for you, don't bother. It's a *guideline*, not a "rule you'd better follow or I'll hate you forever." But if you'd like to have family with "reader" considerations, it's definitely something to think about to save your family, or a potential friendship some annoyance.
Just remember, it's YOUR voice for you to use and develop over time. While I recognize some guidelines, I'm trying to internalize them to make it a habit and *NOT* have to think about or stress over them.
Be Beautiful You!
I've seen posts from people using #screenreaders saying that inline hashtags don't really bother them. They're already used to filtering out the extra stuff the screen readers say that this is practically a non-issue - that's what one screenreader users whose post got boosted to my timeline said anyway.
Still, I find overuse of them annoying even as a sighted reader, and try to have only one or two inline and the rest at the end of the post, just as a matter of preference.
You have good feedback. I am not aware of anyone following me with visual impairment. And without someone saying so, I've no feedback, only guesses from "what I have heard." I also agree I find them "slightly annoying" although not annoying enough to me to comment on it. While there are many considerations, accessibility ranks pretty high on my personal list.
But that is *JUST* my personal list. I don't find it appropriate for me to push my *personal* list on anyone else.
@sebastian_hos
RE: hashtags
In addition to the below, you can long press a column heading and add multiple tags. (Or exclude)
@apps 🔗 https://toot.fedilab.app/users/apps/statuses/109394738483622733
@JBrianCoyle
Thanks!
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@apps
@freemo @QOTO
When I press that button nothing happens, and when I go to Followed Tags I get this error: "Your instance does not seem to support that feature!" Is it an app issue or an instance issue related to Mastodon 4, or both perhaps?
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QOTO is different than mas.to which runs mastodon, we are a fork wioth more features. Sadly even though we had hashtag follows **years** before mastodon fedilab only suypports it on mastodon right now, where its a fairly new feature.
You can follow hashtags fromt he web interface if you wish (which is better than fedilab IMO).
That said we will pull inn some of code from vanilla mastodon soon and when we do this feature will work with fedilab.
@sebastian_hos
#Hashtag suggestion I've seen from those using screen readers is that it helps to capitalize each word within a hashtags versus leaving everything in lowercase.
I don't want to create unrelated hashtags in this thread, so using ampersand instead - & PostcardsToVoters versus & postcardstovoters. As I understand it the screen reader can parse the separate words within the hashtags based on capitalization versus just spelling out a non dictionary word otherwise.
@sebastian_hos most instances have a 500 character limit, which is probably about right for a “Twitter analogue”.