Can we destroy hashtags? If I say please maybe it’ll happen.

@simonwoods You have to say #please

@simonwoods now you are ready for instagram, but in all seriousness I find hasthtags essential to my bookmarking workflow. I keep 1,000s of files, hashtags allow me to quickly categorize and cross referene

@jgmac1106 Seeing them with files, sure. But seeing them on the web, not so much.

There's something so odd about seeing a massive silo like Twitter (I'm picking on them because of their cultural relevance and influence), having made all kinds of changes to become a blog host and yet not had enough of a spine to embrace that fact and clean up this relic.

@simonwoods conveniently supplied content meta data is a good idea broadly.

@jsonbecker I use tags all the time. Hashtags I use almost entirely ironically.

@philipbrewer sure, but they’re fundamentally the same. Even with Instagram being kind of a shit show, folks have largely evolved to using . and new line to hide the tags because it’s meta content, not content. And then look at the brilliant way it’s used on Tumblr...

@jsonbecker Anything that gets people to produce some metadata is worth encouraging. Even hashtags.