Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks agoThey really aren’t.
They’re a user created workaround, attempting to fix the structure-less, findability problem. Twitter embraced and officially incorporated them, because they had no better solution that wasn’t completely rebuilding the entire system. They rightly new everybody would hate that.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The point of twitter is (more like was at this point) to follow people.
They’re different formats completely, and one isn’t inherently better than the other.
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks ago
Agreed.
Until people started following hashtags. Then they were trying to be about more than just people, and doing it poorly. Kind of like wanting to subscribe to people on Lemmy. That’s not what it’s for, and just shouldn’t be an option, so people know that.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
following hashtags kinda tricks people that it’s going to be good, but hashtags don’t trigger federation so it’s a bit of a disappointment unless you’re on a big instance