christina d-h on Nostr: "The #hashtag is a uniquely important tool in Mastodon: it, in principle, can hail ...

"The #hashtag is a uniquely important tool in Mastodon: it, in principle, can hail people to a topic, and is the closest to a guarantee to bringing willing eyes to a matter of shared concern or shared affection.

But the hashtag is also uniquely fragile: it cannot function if there are typos or misspellings (or even linguistic differences in a single language, like “labor” versus “labour”); and it is vulnerable to hostile takeover."

-Some guy writing about #Mastodon