Struggling to understand use-case for the new #Mastodon #HashtagBar. That's the feature that selectively formats hashtags placed one or more blank lines from the end of your text and shifts them into the status info area of the post, where they're then formatted to visually resemble a flat-UI "button."

People seem to love it.

But what literally is the point? Is it just to make shit look pretty? it's giving a qualitatively & quantitatively different treatment to some tags w/ no account of why.