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Mastodon has gained 106,723 monthly active users since the end of March (when Elon bought 9.2% of Twitter's shares). 93,603 are new accounts. Overall that's a 42% increase in Mastodon's MAU. (mastodon.social)
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I assume this is mastodon.social. Small compared to twitter, but it's progress.

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[–] Stoned_Ape@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I started to use Mastodon recently. I'm sorry if I sound grumpy, but... that's a hell of an awful user interface. Basic features seem to be missing. I wanted to collect some topics I'm interested in... and you can't do that. You have to type in the hashtag of your interest every single time. You can't mix multiple hashtags for an overview. Simply put: You can't follow hashtags. That's a feature that is discussion since more than 5 years. I honestly don't get it.

[–] Halce@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Of course you can pin and follow hastags in Mastodon.

  1. Search for a hashtag (e.g. #web in the search bar).
  2. Click on the hashtag (#web here, as an example).
  3. You will see a column #web open in the web interface at the far end.
  4. You can pin this hashtag column by clicking on the three settings leavers at the top of the hashtag column, then selecting Pin.
[–] Stoned_Ape@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the reply. I knew about that workaround. That's only works with the "advanced view", and the user interface for combining hashtags is atrocious. You always have to have one permanent column for that, so you maybe can make a few of them before your screen is overloaded horizontally.

It kinda works, but it's not a good solution.

[–] Halce@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

It may be worth thinking about how/where could this be implemented in the simple interface... as a future improvement.

[–] MadScientist@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

try misskey. its antennas feature might be what you need. it's basically a way to create a custom timeline from specific users and/or with specific keywords, which can be hashtags

[–] Stoned_Ape@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks!

[–] danie10@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a couple of hashtags pinned in a column (desktop browser), so can see any of those topics as they are posted. For me this is actually better than Twitter has?

[–] Stoned_Ape@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a problematic workaround only possible with the "advanced view".

[–] danie10@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Well not "problematic" as it actually works great, and I've never had to touch it. But yes, I'm not sure all the mobile app clients have implemented this option, which is why I mainly use the desktop browser. Having such a "watchlist" is essential for me for monitoring topics of interest. I prefer to follow topics, than profiles.