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submitted 1 year ago by leshiy19xx@alien.top to c/mastodon
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A new user here (never used twitter before either). I subscribed to #wearos hashtag in the webgui. Day later I saw one post in my home screen. I answered it. Now in my home I see that post and my answer.

Q1: My answer does not have #wearos inside, why it is shown here?

Q2: the original post already had one answer from someone else, how one can see it?

Q3: how to see posts with hashtags I follow?

q4: does following a hashtag overrules language settings? I.e. there is a post written on "do-not-show-me" language, but with a hashtag I follow - will I see it.

Side question: according to explore->hashtags it shows me popular tags for today, in the list I see 1.2K posts for catuday, and few tags with 100 and less posts. This looks like that either no one use tags, or no one uses mastodon or I misunderstand description of "explore->hashtags"?

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[–] RetroJens@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

  1. Becuase you replied to it.

  2. You only see the repos es that propagate to your instance. If you click on the 3 dots in webgui you can go to the original page. This will load straight from the senders instance and you will see their reality. From there you can get a link to a reply you wish to reply to and load that in your webgui. When you answer, your instance will make the connection and you will see responses from there in the future.

  3. As the above suggests, you only see the instances your instance knows about. So following a hashtag is good but can also be limiting. But as soon as your instance learns of another instance it will be shown. So, from this, takeaway that it’s not an absolute nor consistent science.

  4. I don’t really know, sorry. But I recommend https://fedi.tips for most things.

Side: yes. Very few uses the hashtags. But it doesn’t hurt if we try to improve.

[–] the68thdimension@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

  1. Yes, hashtags override language settings. Or more accurately, language settings don't apply to your home timeline, which is not a public timeline. Language settings only apply to public timelines, which is kinda a bug, IMO: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20937.

  2. You can see posts from hashtags in two places. One, they show up in your home timeline. Two, on the hashtag's feed, e.g. https://[server address]/tags/wearos. You can navigate to a hashtag's feed from multiple places - you can see your followed hashtags at https://[server address]/followed_tags, you can click on any hashtag in a post, or you can search a hashtag.

You only see the repos es that propagate to your instance.

Pretty sure that's been mangled by autocorrect and is supposed to say "You only see the replies that propagate to your instance."