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Does anyone still use hashtags? I often searched and tweeted them back in the day on Twitter, they worked well for organic discoverability. But I don't see many
by HeckFeck 3y ago
Does anyone still use hashtags? I often searched and tweeted them back in the day on Twitter, they worked well for organic discoverability. But I don't see many uses of them now.
- hermanradtke 3y agoYou can follow a topic without having to follow specific people.
- pjc50 3y agoOn Twitter they got destroyed by spam and then de-prioritized by the platform in favor of the "sidebar" guessing what people were talking about.
- drcongo 3y agoThey're fantastic on Mastodon where there's no algorithm trying to force you to something more stupid. Or spambots, or grifters, or nazis, or pornbots. Hopefully Bluesky is going to follow a model closer to that than the current state of Twitter.
- edm0nd 3y ago#yes #all #the #time
- whywhywhywhy 3y agoNo, every platform apart from maybe Tiktok will apply a heavy negative weight to your post if you use them.
- Spivak 3y agoTumblr is the only social media site that has a successful tagging where the tags actually are meaningful for discovery and it's all due to the community not really the implementation.
- dghughes 3y agoThe word hashtag has almost become a pejorative word. People seem to use like "hashtag whatever" as a taunt. It's like the word karma has become tainted because people only use it to mean something bad as a taunt to someone. In Hindu there is good and bad karma like yin and yang.