Edited below. I imagine many of us are here from reddit, where hashtags weren't really a thing and in many places mentions were actively discouraged (/r/politics I'm looking at you). However, since everything we post or comment on kbin (and lemmy) has the potential of getting federated on a mastodon server, which leans heavily...
Several ways. Obviously you can simply check the popularity of certain hashtags yourself by searching them. Secondly, theres also hashtag suggestions, so if i were to write "#tot" and #totkcontraption is the first one, its probably the most popular one. Lastly, you just use 2-3 hashtags. So #totk#tearsofthekingdom#totkvehicles for example.
Its not a perfect system that will sort every post perfectly, but its an open and flexible system.
Should we be using hashtags and mentions more? (kbin.social)
Edited below. I imagine many of us are here from reddit, where hashtags weren't really a thing and in many places mentions were actively discouraged (/r/politics I'm looking at you). However, since everything we post or comment on kbin (and lemmy) has the potential of getting federated on a mastodon server, which leans heavily...