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”?

PS: mastodon.social instance

  • the68thdimension@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months 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.”