BOOST OR QUOTE THIS!

[mdione@en.osm.town]

@meganmariehart maybe you should try #phanpy https://phanpy.social/ It's a Mastodon client, not a new instance.

[mdione@en.osm.town]

@meganmariehart TBH I never read the trending feed, but that's probably just me

[cpsask@techhub.social]

@meganmariehart Like many others, I saw your boost without any hashtags.

I usually forget to use hashtags and often end up shouting into the wind. But it is ok, I’m as introverted on-line as in person. A large response would likely overwhelm me -

Good luck convincing your group.

[stevejb@beige.party]

@meganmariehart I love what your end game here is; getting theaters involved in the Fediverse. I suspect that the metrics you're asking about are available to those running an instance. Otherwise, how would "Trending" be established. I think you need to talk to someone running their own instance. I think a good place to start would be https://fedi.tips/

[saltywizard@beige.party]

@futurebird @meganmariehart

my fedi t-shirt sez, 'here to SOCIALIZE'

(it has many layers of meaning)

[meganmariehart@mastodon.social]

@futurebird Now, that’s an interesting perspective I hadn’t considered! As a performer, my main use of Mastodon besides playing games is to post “Look at what I will be doing“ and “Look at what I did”
… and “Look at my cat,” of course.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@meganmariehart I dislike hashtags, personally.

I preferred forums.

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@meganmariehart
I see your post, Megan.

[semitones@tiny.tilde.website]

@futurebird

As someone with a large following, do you have any recommendations for dealing with notifications?

I've heard several times that creators that seem to be pretty good have trouble dealing with all the replies on Mastodon, specifically.

@meganmariehart

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@futurebird @meganmariehart

(I favourited and boosted this, but given the content of the post, I feel like that could be interpreted as a passive-aggressive attack. It isn't meant to be, I have nothing of value to add to this, but I completely agree with the sentiment expressed.)

[semitones@tiny.tilde.website]

@futurebird

Also, probably very few people will find this interesting, but the latest campaign in not another D&D podcast lampoons this kind of social media influencer with a Social Media Warlock (derives her power from her social media following.)

@meganmariehart

[44@defcon.social]

@sarble +1
i have 14 followers on masto and have had more engaging interactions here than ten years of instagram could give me
(not counting insta dms since those are almost xclusively ppl i know irl)

[meganmariehart@mastodon.social]

@sonjaschuh01 Thank you so much! I’ll give this to someone who’s good with math and computers. I have a hunch it could be really helpful. (I’m terrible at math. Did you know dancers are better at math than musicians? I heard them count to eight!)

[44@defcon.social]

@meganmariehart dont boosts also go against the 'i want to test the default reach of posts?'

boosting a post means it will show up in someones timeline, where it wouldnt have shown up in if not boosted

[meganmariehart@mastodon.social]

@Irisfreundin Thank you, this might be helpful in addition. By the way, I got this message when I tried to view your initially hidden post: “Notifications from this account have been filtered because the account or its server has been limited by a moderator.” I thought you might want to know.

[zazoobred@mstdn.social]

@meganmariehart when you say "theater", I think "backstage" and 'images", and then maybe pixelfed instance in the end, not mastodon?

[forgetpassword@goingdark.social]

@meganmariehart seeing is overrated, how many people can feel a post without #

[andii@climatejustice.social]

@meganmariehart
I often use em. But sometimes I don't often because I can't think of a suitable one for the post being composed.

[iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org]

@meganmariehart the underlying protocol of Fediverse is not dependent on any tags. strictly saying it does not have tags at all. it works like email and delivery depends on user addresses ;like username+servername. if a connected user reposts or comments some post in Fediverse, there's a chance that his followers get a copy if the original post too, so posts spread across trhe different servers on Fediverse.
some platforms (like Mastodon) allow subscription to tags and some filtering on tags. others do not offer that features. but tags often may be used in seatch engines on servers and people may sort out messages with tags for easier search.

[dallo@pouet.chapril.org]

@Netraven @meganmariehart while I prefer forum too, I love hashtags as both a way to cross post and to filter or reject content.