This answer is uttered by someone who actually never used social media regularly & committedly, until now as #NostrOnly.

I wasn't used to this style of connecting with people, so I expressed quite a few posts with using this technique, to familiarise myself with it.

One cool thing I found out doing that, is that it is so extremely easy to connect with people outside of your usual circle of peers, once you start using general hashtags, like #askNostr, for example.

For "communities" you have to join them & if they have custom names, you also have to find them first.

The hurdle is much bigger. While using a hashtag is so damn simple & quick.

That said, the issue to me with cluttering text is not i line hashtags, where they naturally make sense, but all those attention seeking npubs, who append like 30 hashtags to the end of their note. This is unnecessary & I would recommend against doing that.

However, inline #Hashtag s make sense to me, now.

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I see your point about how easy it is to get started with hastags but IMO just because something is easy, does not make it the optimal solution.

Communities' UX could and should be improve to make discovery, reach and visibility simpler. Once that is done, I don't see how that is not a strictly superior solution.

Yes, sounds well in theory, but how do you make discovery easy enough? In my experience, there are so many ways to word a single topic, you will never be able to have such a good search, that covers all ways of phrasing the same thing. Especially, with the XY Problem, where the description does not match the actual intention behind the question.

Well, maybe AI will fix that at some point...

What's wrong with discovery on reddit?