Women Interface Network  Mar 13
#why #are #mastodon #users #like #this
Show threadGNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng) Mar 13
It #helps with the #algorithm. But #actually, I #think it's an old #Twitter style of #writing tweets from when its algorithm was less fancy

Show threadWomen Interface Network  Mar 13
@eris so it’s a vestigial linguistic structure persisting beyond its relevant context, interesting
Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of the Pnictogen WingMar 13
What the heck is vestigial about it? And why do you hate it so much? One can find pertinent things through hashtags here, and one can scarcely hope to find them any other way.
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@mxchara @eris even searching for hashtags doesn’t work here on akkoma so we’ve all just given up on search, I forget it still matters somewhere 
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Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of the Pnictogen WingMar 13
I perceive there's a general notion that making search difficult to impossible is closing off an avenue for abuse and harassment, but there are legitimate reasons to want to search the fediverse on a given topic, so…not sure where to go from here.
Show threadWomen Interface Network  Mar 13
@mxchara @eris and it’s not that I hate hashtags in themself, there’s just this particular kind of guy on mastodon instances who replies completely missing the point and adding like 10 hashtags at the end of the post
Show threadGNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng) Mar 13
even searching for hashtags doesn’t work here on akkoma
what if you type #hashtag in the post window and then click on it in the preview area?  it might go through a different codepath

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Show threadWomen Interface Network  Mar 13
@eris @mxchara interestingly I tried following that hashtag link from here and it took me to your instance’s search results
Show threadGNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng) Mar 13
oh yeah hehe it does that, maybe some snac thing, if I try to click on your hashtags, they go to your instance as well

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Show threadWomen Interface Network  Mar 13
@eris @mxchara fascinating behavior, so they are links created by the origin instance and not by the instance reading it like usernames
Show threadCurioMar 13
@winter
If you look at the raw Mastodon client API responses, it actually serves all hashtags and mentions as HTML links with various <span> tag denoting their parts and function.
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