Two excellent, in-depth guides to Mastodon, which should answer many of your questions, are here:
1. An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon by joyeusenoelle: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon
2. Nikodemus' Guide to Mastodon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit#heading=h.j95atvlbfrn5
*PLEASE BOOST THIS POST* so more people can see this information in their timelines, thank you so much! ❤️
To boost, just click on the boost button below this post, as indicated by the red arrow in the attached image (the icon may vary a bit, by app):
@ryanschultz I hope those guides explain that this is NOT how to do things on Mastodon. Hashtags and NOT asking for things to be boosted is the preferred method.
@theexplorographer Well, your experience may vary. I have found both hashtags and asking people to boost works. For example, my original post has already been boosted almost 800 times today. The goal is the same: to get it to appear on more people's timelines. But yes, I do agree that teaching people how hashtags work on Mastodon is very important.
@ryanschultz @theexplorographer i agree Ryan. No doubt, the culture will change here, one way or another.
