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comment by Owl
Owl  ·  3948 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are some good tags to follow?

What do you like?

I like books, reading (and related literary tags like writing, poetry and so on), philosophy, classicalmusic, and technology (and related tags of interest, like privacy and linux).

I suppose a nice quirky tag I follow is #birds tag. It's got only two posts, but I'm sure with time it'll change (I might post something in that sometime soon; Perhaps something related to owls...). Another quirky, but really dead and underused tag is #sakamotosunday, which is apparently devoted to posting the music of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, but there has only been one post in that (I guess I'm gonna fix that tomorrow.)

I suppose those unused tags don't count as good, but I liked them enough to follow them.

Additionally, the main draw of hubski is in reality not the tags, but the people. The concept in my mind is that a person you know posts good quality stuff is more likely to... post good quality stuff. So you follow them and never get something low quality. A tag and the people using the tags might grow to a point where only silly stuff gets visibility, but a good person is not likely to change their habits.

In reality I follow more tags than people anyway, but I suppose if Hubski ever grows big enough, following people might be a better idea.