I can only speak for how it shows up on Mastodon, but over there any hashtags we try and add here just show up as plain text and don’t show in the actual tag feed, so it does nothing for discoverability.

Shoutout to !raccoonforlemmy@lemmy.world for saving us when Liftoff went under.

Reposting from a couple days ago:

I’m legally obliged to shill the various crafting communities, my two most used are !knitting@lemmy.world and !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works but you can find lots more in the sticky thread in either of those.

Then there’s also !imadethis@lemm.ee which has been a bit quiet lately so if you’ve made something, go show it off!

• !ukcasual@lemmy.world
• !simpleliving@lemmy.ml and !simpleliving@lemm.ee
• !discworld@lemmy.ml
• !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
• !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz
• !artshare@lemmy.world
• !pixelart@lemmy.ml
• !zillowgonewild@midwest.social
• !solarpunk@slrpnk.net and !technology@slrpnk.net (actually pretty much anything on slrpnk.net)
• !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
• !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works and !patientgamers@lemmy.ml
• !mathmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
• !potatoism@lemmy.world
• !crossview@lemmy.world and !parallelview@sh.itjust.works
• !radiolemmy@lemm.ee

The only times I’ve really been downvoting is if someone is giving out completely incorrect information, like in a support thread or something, and confusing matters. It’s not a personal judgement or anything, just trying to keep things clear for the person asking the question.

If I disagree with a comment, well no biggie. Sometimes it’s worth discussing like adults and sometimes it’s just a subjective opinion. If it’s offensive, I’ll report it and block the user.

Yup, it’s been extremely effective. I got engaged at the end of last year and certain types of people seemed genuinely horrified that I didn’t get a diamond ring.

Anecdotally though those tended to be older folks so I think maybe it’s losing effectiveness and younger people are seeing how absurd and arbitrary the whole thing is.

Pretty great tbh. The tricky thing with being an early adopter is you kind of have to be the change you want to see, but I’m old enough to feel no shame about just barging into places and starting new threads as needed.

So far started two accounts on two different instances (I like to keep different subjects somewhat separate) and had really cool interactions on both.

Obviously there are a few UX issues, trying to sub to remote communities is kind of a nightmare, but hopefully I’ve subbed to enough that other people on my instance will find it a bit easier to find them through search.