From the community-organizing power of the hashtag to decentralization and the massive shifts ignited by AI, @chrismessina threads the needle on it all. The inventor of the hashtag joins @mike on the latest episode of Dot Social:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/hashtag-inventor-chris-messina/
Another great #Hashtag that needs to “trend” along with #ProLifeMyAss
Imma attaching these to all my posts today!
Ps—so he left his personal device behind—in his underwear drawer or what? How secure was it?
I looked at the stats for my 1-page website over the last 12 months. It's been busy, very very busy.
Top country: China - very surprised as I have only 1 page and its in English
Visitors per year by city:
Shanghai: 71
Vienna: 30 not surprising as I live here
Melton Mowbray: 4
The latter is ... oddly specific. They're only reknowned for having Pork Pies. I have cooked, posted about, and eaten, many pork pies, but my 1-pager business site has nothing about pies.
How weird is that?
in continuation of the post misplaced on the #tengri thread... the #hashtag #productive #weekend continues!
https://codeberg.org/Frieder_Hannenheim is on a roll, go give him some love!
@puppygirlhornypost2 @Mondobizarrro we used to do it as a bit on twetter and would always make sure to finish with #hashtag
I get really frustrated with the limitations of fediverse search some days. I want to search for whether @user, who I follow (or is me), posted anything with the tag #HashTag. Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to program this kind of cross-referencing into the search tools in fediverse apps. But I've yet to see it done.
@uferrandzonengewaechs Ich wäre an dem Thema auch interessiert, wobei die Frage ist, ob es dafür einen #Hashtag oder eine eigene Instanz braucht.
Wenn ich mir eine neue Funktion für das #Fediverse wünschen dürfte, dann wäre das ein #Filter für mehr als xx #mentions und #hashtags …
Look at this purple guy. What even is he doing? Why does he exist? No one can answer... and that haunts him.
Die aktuelle Batterietechnik, auch im Vergleich zu Wasserstoff, Kernenergie, eFuels...
Herr Prof. Fichtner mit seinem aktuellen Vortrag:
https://www.youtube.com/live/uTbiMGl0mts
Es ist nicht so, dass er das hier zum ersten Mal in der Art macht, aber er hat seine Folien "geupdated"
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Vom 05.02.2025 im Deutschen Museum.
#energiewende #energie #bev #heimspeicher #klimakatastrophe
#edit: #typo, #hashtag
Mastodon Tip #1:
Hashtags are great to find, follow and filter topics.
Place them at the very end of your toot, so your helpful list can automatically shorten in timelines by apps like Tusky.
So nobody has to complain about to many of them... 
So #fediverse / #mastodon / #activitypub people, what do we have by now that is a usable alternative to facebooks group- & event feature?
I have a number of friends who work in event-related contexts, play in bands, do art exhibitions etc. most of them are still at metas platforms for basically 1-2 reasons. Twatter doesn't really matter at all to them because no feature keeps them there.
The Main reason for most of them to stay with meta is to promote their events & the easiness to invite people to an event or self-subscribe.
The other reasons are groups/channels where people have sub-discussion threads, that "feel a little bit isolated from the rest of the platform".
I'm not 100% convinced, that this can/can't be substituted by something like "only display this toot to people following the #hashtag" or something similar.
Reason number three is network effect at the end of the day, which is not really technically addressable from "our side" imho. Being able to show easy to use alternatives should be doable tho.
#Hashtag police! 
We have you surrounded!
Well, hit me with a halibut and call me Henrietta, it's Reading List 336! https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/reading-list-336/ #hashtag
@johnbloor @degenezijde Precisely this. If you use a #hashtag inline it stays inline, but if you put one at the bottom of your post it gets styled up.
(D.Burch) 
(quiet time) 
