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.
Show threadGNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng) Mar 13
well, you can also search for the word itself, no need to hashtag half of the entire post

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Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of the Pnictogen WingMar 13
Is there something actually wrong with wanting a post to be easier to find on search?
Show threadWomen Interface Network  Mar 13
@mxchara @eris I totally get dropping hashtags on the end of a long significant post you want to attract discussion to or something, but why would some random irrelevant reply need to be that easily searched?
Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing
I can't answer that, but surely there's no way to implement a mechanism allowing a person to signify, "I would like my post to be more easily found on search," that isn't going to be used badly or nonsensically at times. I think it's an acceptable drawback, a minor nuisance. It just looks silly.
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Show threadWomen Interface Network  Mar 13
@mxchara @eris and that’s all I was complaining about, not the mechanism of hashtags themself, I don’t know why this argument was necessary 
Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of the Pnictogen WingMar 13
My apologies. I happen to like that there's some kind of mechanism like hashtagging, and I myself feel like it's in the spirit of the early Internet (which often featured highly hyperlinked hand-coded webpages) so I am keen to defend it.