vozer :vozerBow:@vozercozer@vozer.cafe
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Because some people are mean and sometimes make fun of or silently judge people because people are that way. People can be very mean and very nasty.
That topic can still be highlighted by searching up the hashtag in the text search. People used to use hashtags on websites that weren’t twitter before those sites implemented them properly, and they worked to the same effect. Either way, as you’ve ignored, corporate social media has no plans to remove this.
If a person has chosen to dilerbertly opt out of stuff for privacy reasons then I don’t understand why they’d want a spotlight on themselves in the first place. What are you talking about?
Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@vozercozer@vozer.cafe
Why should someone obey mean people? Eff them.
"If a person has chosen to dilerbertly opt out of stuff for privacy reasons then I don’t understand why they’d want a spotlight on themselves in the first place. What are you talking about?"
They want their posts to be searchable for the topics they choose, rather than for every single word they include in their post.
This is why it took so long for Mastodon to get full text search, because this privacy issue had to be resolved.