@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)
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.
@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.