Many people _follow hashtags, like an account, like a person. There's a button atop the new column when you click a hashtag.
#bloomscrolling has had 450 posts today. So all of them are added to your home timeline, if you follow it. As you type a hashtag, Mastodon shows the number used today.
Follow several, boost them, use useful ones. You can always stop following.
Tools. #introduction has 145 today.
Oct 24, 2025, 5:43 PM
@kevinrns @w3c
I do follow some hashtags. But it's mostly very specific things, such as cheminformatics.
Were I to follow things like Friday, news, dogs... Anything may come up. I mean, even chemistry has a bunch of very very different things I do not care about.
How do you make hashtags worthwhile following? There are some which are specific to some instances and have a very clear objective, but outside from that I never found something which actually works.
Let's say I'm interested in people collecting mushrooms in the wild. What should I follow? Mushroom, mycology? Most possibly this will get full of things completely unrelated and nothing I actually care about.
Same thing when I'm writing the toot, which ones should I introduce?
Yes. Mastodon is a newspaper and has sections you never open. Some folks never open sports, or turn first to puzzles, or just read the business pages.
Unlike a newspaper, it's written by readers, and has no single overriding purpose.
Good luck finding all the #FungiFriday #mushroom #MushroomMonday hashtags used.
Adding a hashtag to the front of # chem shows that #chembiochem was used 4 times - experiment.
Mastodon is the cafe at the world's fair.