However, there are also widely-used hashtags which you may not be aware of as they use unusual portmanteau words or phrases. Here is an attempt to list some of them
A really helpful list because it's not always obvious how to find community-centered events/tags/etc. when you're just browsing on Mastodon
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We proposed this project in the fall of 2023 based on our shared sense that the Fediverse’s history of resilience and expansion positions it as one of our best chances to allow more people to maintain strong social connections online while escaping the behavioral manipulation, pervasive surveillance, and capricious governance that characterizes large-scale centralized social platforms.
Initial research question: “What are the most effective governance and administration models/structures in place on medium-to-large sized Fediverse servers, and what infrastructural gaps (human and digital) persist?”
Our rationale at the project’s outset: “The Fediverse’s rapid expansion brings both opportunities and multifaceted risks. Our research seeks to identify current server administrators’ most promising models for mitigating those risks and outline the biggest and most important gaps in risk mitigation, with the aim of helping the broader Fediverse level up governance quickly, safely, and collaboratively.”
Spend January 2026 on the Fediverse:
- Create an account (on our Mastodon server, or another one near you).
- Learn and explore.
- Then, bring your friends.
We can grow something better!
Fediverse servers work like this: servers only really notice accounts from other servers if someone on your server follows or interacts with them.
The reason servers work like this because of resources. If servers had to keep a copy of every post from millions of users on thousands of Fediverse servers in the world, server running costs would become prohibitively expensive (and most of those posts would probably never be read by anyone on your server anyway).
I'd always wondered this-- the instance I use is fairly small, so most of the time accounts look blank to me when I first viewed them!