Screenshot of a Mastodon post reading as follows: “@waldoj Hi! Adding hashtags and/or Content Warnings - e.g. #USpol - provides readers with more context and more choice regarding filtering, especially for international folk, and especially for non-followers who are only seeing your posts as boosts.”

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   Waldo Jaquith (waldoj@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 20:40:50 JST Waldo Jaquith

   One weird and off-putting thing about Mastodon culture is the idea that one should use hashtags not for discoverability, but for the opposite—so that people need not be exposed to concepts that they aren't interested in…but for some reason they follow people who boost such uninteresting posts.

   Here somebody suggests that I use a hashtag about US politics to keep him from seeing something I wrote that has nothing at all to do with US politics.