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"Reported for using too many hashtags"
We do have a limit of 60 hashtags per post, if you exceed that limit, the rest won't be autolinked.
Btw, the fediverse belongs to everyone.
The hashtag police need to calm down lol, people are used to them from Instagram.
@dansup gotta say, i wish people would get UNused to them. They’re being abused to inject irrelevant content or outright spam . Blocking ppl right left and centre for doing that (its against rules & CoC on my instances).
@johannab It's a bit tricky, I will admit.
On one hand, I admit that more than a few hashtags can be too much, but at the same time, they are used to this from Instagram, and asking them to change their behavior is unlikely to work.
Long term, a better solution is to separate them from the caption and make them easier to handle in other software.
Do you concur, or think we could go another route?
@dansup theres potential to use the actual engineering to improve the social engineering - you have room to dampen the antisocial and predatory influencer-culture import by making the behavioural tactics less meaningful here. Pixelfed is already losing value for me as i see more and more use of it for memes and pictures of text rather than actual photos. Hashtag spamming ruins the network potential of hashtags, sort of a paradox-of-tolerance problem.
@dansup as a mastodon mod, and hoping to work as a PF mod once cosocial gets an instance going … a mod switch to alert to hashtag abuse, or to filter them right out on my instances, would be an appealing option to have.
@johannab We can def add support for that (monitoring unusual hashtag usage), I'm working on a huge moderation update with a new moderation role, and dashboard that will be shipping later this month.
We have a pretty powerful moderation system, with moderation logs, interstitial warnings and appeals.
I'd love to discuss this further at some point, there is a lot of ways we can improve moderation and build on the existing tooling.
@johannab Most posts don't even use hashtags, so I think there is that bias, if you actually seen the local feed of pixelfed.social, you could see the amount of photos and selfies, it's honestly so cool to see so many new people.
But I digress, we've seen rampant growth and I can understand your frustrations, and hope you know I am working on resolving them.
@dansup i very much appreciate everything you’re doing! And i’m trying to navigate the waves myself, still, even after 7+ fedi-years.
I see bits of flotsam and jetsam that have swirled around since i was downloading and decoding alt.binaries off usenet. Some are not visible to many others and dont matter. Some are not visible to many others but matter much, because they’ve become embedded in the digi-cultural foundations we stand on, long before we built here. And they rot.
@dansup and i fully admit, there are many things i see and i have NO CLUE if they’re the significant ones or not - sometimes takes years for the trouble to brew! 
@johannab Thank you, and I agree, let's fix this before it becomes more of a problem!