Hey IndieWeb, POSSE people, can we please use the same hashtags for reviews?!
Michael Harley
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Like any good IndieWeb nerd, I post my reviews on my website first, then syndicate those to all the places.
Justin is someone I follow, and we both use our websites in pretty similar ways, with goals that seem to line up. I noticed that we both reviewed Silo S3 and syndicated both of our posts to Mastodon. Here is his (archived) and here is mine. Our hashtags do not connect. Two people doing the very same thing, on the very same show, do not connect to each other with hashtags. That doesn't seem right in my mind.
This led me down a rabbit hole of trying to do analytics on which hashtags connect with the people I'm trying to connect with. I wish the IndieWeb wiki contained some recommended hashtags. I looked and didn't find any, but it would have been nice to have something to start with.
So after taking a very small sample and studying the analytics, I am standardizing on these tags when syndicating. I invite everyone to pick some of these as well or to recommend better ones.
Mastodon
- Movies:
#Review #Cinemastodon #Movies #MovieReview - Shows:
#Review #TVShows #Series - Books:
#Review #Books #Bookstodon #Reading+ genre tag
Bluesky
- Movies:
#FilmSky #Films #MovieReview - Shows:
#TVSky #TV #Series - Books:
#BookSky #Books #Reading+ genre tag
I'm curious, where else do you syndicate your review posts? Other than movies, shows and books, what else do you syndicate? If you have any suggestions please send them my way.
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D Dale Mellorʼs Blog via khleedril.org
To be honest, your tags are weird, Justin's are more like what I would search for.
Question is, why don't you add #TV to your list of Mastodon TV reviews, and then you will overlap with Justin?
It would also have been helpful if you'd done a review of the popularity of the various tags; when you type them into Mastodon it tells you have many such tags have recently been used. You could use that as a guide to which tags are the better ones to use.
I've favored a two-tier approach to organizing the metadata around my posts. First tier is categories, these are the more generalized buckets: #reviews, #essays, #oped, etc. The second tier is more context dependent: #casio, #music, #tech, etc.
The idea is that I can build a list of 3-6 hashtags that communicates intent and context.
Just my two cents. ;)
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