@tooterphone_tooterflute @atomicpoet Also could it be that a lot of Fedizens want to keep the hashtag culture alive because they see it as a more consensual way to post. With hashtag based indexing, one can vary the discoverability of each individual post by the use or absence of hashtags. Some might worry that people won't search for hashtags anymore if there is full text search. In addition, who is to say people don't just want to keep the option available to make the choice at a later date of opting out of google indexing in the future and using hashtags for visibility instead.

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