Hashtags are useless.

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#HashTagsAreUseless

Except when you are trying to find a subject that you can easily research hash tags are useless.

Yeah! What happened to good old fashioned keyword search? Any kind of unmoderated tagging system is pretty pointless I think.

When I use them in my telegram groups it's easy to call them when I'm looking for information.

Fur example say I'm traveling and I've shared my tickets with my wife I hash tag tickets or other things so that you can find them fast.

On one of my NOSTR apps the website publishes hashtags as subjects and it makes for ready navigation.

I see them as intentionally calling out a subject.

Like if you want to make connections you search a hashtags.

Curated verses moderated.

Whoops, replied to the wrong person by mistake. Fiatjaf is much more based.

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Is there a layer2 search engine that crawls relays yet?

What’s better than hashtags?

plain hash

Zaptags when?

What are your hashtag in timeline?

Number 145 iris graph

hashtag GSC360(8) Sports(5)

#isthisyournextattack?

My wife wouldn't be here if it weren't for obscure yarn hashtags. BUT...maybe lists or something are the modern solution.

You mean nostr:npub1hgvtv4zn2l8l3ef34n87r4sf5s00xq3lhgr3mvwt7kn8gjxpjprqc89jnv is your wife?

Yep

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Ugly maybe. Not entirely useless though.

#introductions

#nostr

#asknostr

#plebchain

#SatsBySW

#yogastr

#catstr

We gotta organize the cat content, ser

No they're not 😛

#thisisnttrueandyouknowit

Pound signs are useful

As a taxonomy yea … as a folksonomy … not so much.

We need universal translator to map structural classifications to colloquial terms.

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#agree

I’m using hashtags to filter content that’ll appear on my domain

https://mantratattoos.ink

I like hashtags to discover people writing about topics that I’m interested in like #monero, #privacy and #dev

So I wouldn’t call it useless.

#garlic

Yes and no

Hashtags are really useful. I like following them.

Yea some people abuse them but overall they are useful.

#engagementfarming

Yeah, it's kinda like bookmarks that one pushes on everyone else... Wanna see my bookmarks??? No thank you. I have my own, thank you very much! 😁 Wanna see my linktree??? Hhmmm? 😅

Maybe they’re not the perfect solution, but they are very useful at getting me topical posts and letting me reach people interested I. The same topic

#uselessHashtags

Hashtags function as a means to increase reach - but in a resolution where any topic can be a hashtag, you're shouting in the void. Hashtags can work in a focused collection of ideas surrounding similar themes, but not through the firehose of ephemeral conversations.

Even there, editable labels (that anyone of the community can add) are a better fit.

#hashtags are useful only if the posts you’re looking for have them. We need #autohashtags

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What are you up to?

#fiatjaf

#HashtagsAreUseless

YES

#YESTR

(but also more seriously: no)

.....#no.str

I agree but couldn’t come up with an alternative

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nostr:npub1ujm8l8mupgwvu8pye2ged78pg3huectlmm6at66x5wffgvl2fkgsygt8l4

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Not true

@ notes IDs

Seriously? 🤨

Sounds like a troll

it works for twitter so copy that system

#wisdom

functioning as discoverability catalysts, they are indeed useful. for all the rest, they are useless. #nostr

#urnotcool4notusinghashtagsurjustpretentiouaabouteverythinganditslame #nostrneedshashtagsfordiscovery

#i_agree

#hashtags

#fiatjafquotes

No but seriously, what alternative do you propose?

Relay-provided custom feeds.

Yeah, there's actually no real functional use to hashtags. They're just keywords.

We do this on relays, already. Just whitelist related keywords and then run a big faucet over that filter.

The next step is to have multifeed-relays.