#johnmastodon is a good example of why #mastodon's current hashtags approach is still flawed. Spent about 5 min scrolling through the latest toots on the hashtag (the only ordering the app supports) without figuring out what that tag is about. Then switched to bad old Twitter and immediately found a few tweets with many likes/retweets explaining its origin.
Without a proper "most popular toots per hashtag" feature, Mastodon will fail as a "What's Happening" alternative to birdsite. #fediverse
@LinqLover I'll chip in to say I was just grumbling about a similar thing, seeing out of context posts just because they happen to mention a hashtag.
Maybe that can be addressed by people marking posts as unlisted if they're not full expressions of a thought, that would make sense without the surrounding context.
Like this post :)
But yeah, chronological hashtag display is a bit too simplistic.
