@volpeon tbh the main problem here seems to be the microblogging paradigm's conflation of "categorization" with "discoverability" (so, hashtags)
in every other paradigm out there putting a #linux tag on your writing, or posting it under a "linux" category, would not be any deal, nobody would prolly notice it consciously. but conflating them with #discoverability leads to #TagSpamming and makes the concept of #tagging as a whole look like a #brand account looking for #attention
tagging (and implicitly, filtering in or out by tags) would solve this particular problem, but the primary influence on the entire network (whether anyone likes it or not) being a 1-1 clone of twitter with a sprinkling of bluesky which is itself a more unabashed clone of twitter, means that tags are effectively "dead" as a concept
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