The practice of inline hashtags on Mastodon is terrible, a clunky & inelegant techie solution. I don't like reading them and will never use them. Separating them out would be great. (via @overholt) theverge.com/23673125/mastodon…
Hashtags are everything on Mastodon — why not give them a home?
Mastodon is a helpful alternative to Twitter, but its reliance on in-post hashtags is inconvenient compared to blogging platforms like Tumblr.Adi Robertson (The Verge)
Jari Pennanen
in reply to kottke.org • • •Colin Devroe
in reply to kottke.org • • •Dan York
in reply to kottke.org • • •I find this article a bit puzzling, since inline hashtags have been a key part of Twitter ever since they first emerged. And that is true of pretty much all other social services.
The article seems like:
- After using many other social services, the author started using Tumblr.
- The author likes that Tumblr puts hashtags outside the text.
- The author now wants others to do like Tumblr.
Which is of course fine, but it’s not really a *Mastodon* issue.
Leisureguy
in reply to kottke.org • • •Do you propose that hashtags not be used at all? (I agree that embedding hashtags in the text makes for hard reading, so I put them in a block at the end.)
The reason I ask is that I've noticed your posts do not use hashtags.
#hashtags