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Both of those are relatively straightforward and wouldn't require any fundamental changes to Mastodon's model to fix. This might be more controversal:

- Hashtags are just bad. This is why no one uses them.

Hashtags are not a good solution. They deface your post, they stand out MORE than actual content, they use up precious chars, they make you look like an Influencer-brained Twitter user. Over on Cohost we have Tumblr-style tags that are smol & gray & under the post and ppl actually use them.