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Replace hashtags with mentions?
X already banned hashtags, also it feels more logic to use at (@) life instead of # life
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Honestly seems a bit unnecessary, ngl don’t see anything wrong with #
doesn't really make sense. One is for projects, the other is for people.
@geertjan vs #myimiganaryproject
I looked it up, and it's apparently only selective hashtags but there's no list that I can find with a 2 minute search, which is stupid that it's a minefield to navigate.
If you're afraid of your content getting delisted or demoted or whatever (or it actually is already getting decimated), start an email list and get off platforms that intentionally hurt creators and grow a community elsewhere.
Honestly I know a bunch of people who now make decent money off of X and they aren't famous. It's not perfect and it def sucks in a lot of ways, but gotta give them props when they deserve it...
If they can figure out the system, then genuinely, that's great for them.
I've been on the platform since 2008, and the quality has declined dramatically. It's always been a bit of a dumpster fire, but it's significantly decreased in the past couple years. And for someone who talks about how bad censorship is, there's a whole lot of censorship happening.
X banned hashtags?
X banned hashtags?
@mentions are unique across WIP. There can be only one @marc. This makes them useful to mention users.
#hashtags are not unique. This allows both you and I to use
#life.
So they serve quite different purposes and I don’t think it makes sense to merge them.
X is a very different platform that uses #hashtags for a different purpose. They initially were introduced to make it easier to find tweets around a shared interest. Which now is being abused and no longer serves that purpose well. For WIP #hashtags are a way to link them to your project using text-only input. (Most services would use a dropdown menu for this, but WIP was born on Telegram where we can’t add UI elements like that)
Cool! I was jealous because I thought @levelsio had
#life haha
Then It all makes sense, you really thought well about this!
Haha. Yeah there was a brief period in time where hashtags had to be unique so you could easily mention other people's projects. But I lifted that constraint, because indeed things like
#life and 
#blog are so universal they should be available to everybody.