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@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.

@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.