I just unfollowed all tags so they don't show up in my main timeline. I'm of the strong opinion that tag following requires an entirely different UI and including them in the main newsfeed, ruins the main news feed.
But Matt, what about the good tags like "python" and "running" - yes there are people there, the rest of the tags are 99% no followers and machine generated RSS feed crap.
♡ 1 ↻ 0A UI specific to this use case could handle
- filtering out the crap accounts (unlike newsfeeds where you filter *words* in the content, in tags you want to filter *accounts* by account qualities)
- bundling tag synonyms
- sorting by quality signals, not recency♡ 1 ↻ 0