Mastering Mastodon: Hashtags and Friends

Mastodon's hashtag search system is difficult to navigate due to the platform's design, which disallows plaintext search. Hashtags clutter up posts, consume valuable character count, and can pose serious annoyances for accessibility tools like screen readers. A Tumblr-style system of listing tags separately from the content of the post, with a separate character limit for the tags, has been suggested as a potential solution. This could improve the user experience for everybody and make the platform more navigable.