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Show mention of the followed hashtag

### Pitch It would be great to show which hashtag you follow brought a toot in your timeline. Something like the “boost” mention but for hashtags. Quick mock-up: ![Mockup](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/923008/198840571-e2312871-899c-4165-b2a2-e127fe45f97a.png) Alternative would be to highlight the hashtags in the toot itself, but I’m not convinced it would make it visible enough. ### Motivation Since I started following hashtags, I have a lot of toots from strangers in my timeline. Which is great, but I keep wondering “who’s this, I don’t remember following them”. When a toot is boosted, it has a mention of who boosted them so I know why it’s there. But when a toot is appearing because of a hashtag, I keep clicking on the profile of the person, see that I don’t follow them, go back to my timeline, and look inside the toot for the hashtag that brought it here.

Posted by nclm on Oct 29, 2022, 3:47 PM

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Show mention of the followed hashtag

nclmOct 29, 2022, 3:47 PM

### Pitch It would be great to show which hashtag you follow brought a toot in your timeline. Something like the “boost” mention but for hashtags. Quick mock-up: ![Mockup](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/923008/198840571-e2312871-899c-4165-b2a2-e127fe45f97a.png) Alternative would be to highlight the hashtags in the toot itself, but I’m not convinced it would make it visible enough. ### Motivation Since I started following hashtags, I have a lot of toots from strangers in my timeline. Which is great, but I keep wondering “who’s this, I don’t remember following them”. When a toot is boosted, it has a mention of who boosted them so I know why it’s there. But when a toot is appearing because of a hashtag, I keep clicking on the profile of the person, see that I don’t follow them, go back to my timeline, and look inside the toot for the hashtag that brought it here.

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