Featured hashtags on Mastodon were originally going to be a really useful feature, but the actual implementation with them off to the side (where trending hashtags usually are) made them totally invisible on the mobile web view and confusing on the desktop view.
They were originally supposed to be above the timeline on a profile (see screenshot). I've started an issue asking for this to be implemented, feel free to join with posts or thumbs if this interests you:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30073
Use Featured Hashtags as content filters displayed immediately above the profile timeline · Issue #30073 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch Put the featured hashtags above the profile timeline as a set of filters, so that people notice them even if they're on a mobile web view, and so that people intuitively understand what they ...GitHub
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This is more about having a custom filter for your own profile, so that people can click on a filter and see your posts on that particular topic.
Groups can't be used in that way?
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