@ricci (copied and slightly edited from our DMs earlier) seems like a pretty comprehensive resource¹.

I've always thought that tags on Mastodon don't work as expected (when coming from an attention-economy-based social platform), but they work as I would hope (when coming from a community-building perspective).

One of the perks of the way tags work on Fedi normally, is that I see the tagged posts *as curated by my communities*.

A great example is searching for slurs or tags that trolls like to use to find victims.

Take the #Trans hashtag—the examples on Mastodon.social are mostly degrading porn or political threats to our existence, whereas on LGBTQIA.space they're mostly affirming posts, news, and community posts, while the ones on theFword are a mix of trans news and self-posted nudes.

Getting *all the posts* often isn't ideal for marginalized communities. We curate our experience here because the rest of the world can be so hostile to us. Almost all of us have fled places like Twitter because the discoverability and amplification that those with privilege love so much actively make the user experience worse for vulnerable groups.

I think of Fedi more like a local community. You meet a few people, you have some chats, you get introduced to others through mutual friends, you follow the conversations and topics that your community talks about. Statistics tell us that a queer meetup likely won't be improved by blindly inviting people...you'll just end up with a straight meetup.

¹ It also functions as a handy tool for finding Image-Based Sexual Abuse accounts 😋