Martin Owens<p>Some hastags on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> are contextual (like this one)</p><p>Some are categorical <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Thoughs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thoughs</span></a></p><p>Others are communal, like <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Mosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mosstodon</span></a> or the many game tags.</p><p>I wonder if the communal tags are a bit like <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reddit</span></a> in that there is a core group of people, one of which started it by posting every day for months before finding their people.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Tenacity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tenacity</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TryTryTryAgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TryTryTryAgain</span></a></p>