this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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You already said that
But you didn't say why Lemmy does not use hashtags for communities.
I explained that hashtags use the pound symbol already, and usernames use the @ symbol. Communities needed their own symbol.
Okay, but how does a hashtag work? Can you give an example of a hashtagged word where Lemmy uses a hashtag?
#hashtags don’t automatically work on Lemmy, but if I cross post this comment to another federated service (mastodon etc.) the hashtags should work there. #lemmy @knova@knova@dartboard.social
Okay, we have:
#
for tagging something@
for usernames!
for communitiesBut does a question mark have any purpose here?
Not that I’m aware.