Hashtags can be made useful if you're fetching them from a restrict set of high-quality relays or if they are actually labels stamped on notes by reliable curators instead of by the post authors themselves.
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I understand what you meant when you said hashtags were "Useless" because every word counts as a hashtag in the search bar. But personally, I use them as bookmarks because they're clickable, and they allow me to find topics related to the #.
Oke thank you .
Happy you changed your mind :)
You seem to be pretending bridges have nothing to do with this problem after nostr had a lot of discussion about bridges yesterday
Hashtags are just a form for labeling content with tags. A story as old as forums/social media itself. Either you tag content into topics or you segment content like Reddit did.
How to integrate anything like that into a network with relays ... might be tricky. Do reliable curators have the time and incentives to do so?
Hashtags that are found on other platforms are really useless. Firstly, they are used by spammers and bots, secondly, because of the bridges in mastodon, when I monitor an interesting tag, I see a lot of accounts that broadcast here but don't use nostr. A simple but not ideal, temporary solution is nostrified and individual tags like #mountainchain or #outdoorstr
Curators introduce bias