Chris Messina: Hashtags coming to Bluesky — from @jay.bsky.team herself! 🤩

Hashtags coming to Bluesky — from @jay.bsky.team herself! 🤩

Hashtags on Blueskyyoutu.be Watch the entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5RjCH0nLj8

Watch the entire episode here with @brianmc.bsky.social on the @techmeme.com Ride Home show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Rj...

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Says They've Added 1.5M Users Since Opening Up. Hashtags Are Coming.www.youtube.com An interview with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the future of social media.00:00 - Intro00:52 - 1.5M users added01:30 - Why Bluesky opened up02:30 - Data fede...

does this foretell the eventual addition of a trending tab?

I suspect that they will probably still favor custom feeds over hashtags / hashtag feeds. I wonder instead if there would be a good way for them to surface a "trending" equivalent for feeds - which feeds have had the most growth in usage (posts, saves, likes) over the last x number of hours.

It certainly means someone could build one, Technorati-style (e.g. third party apps could index tags and provide access to trending feeds).

Oh definitely. @nowbreezing.ntw.app , for example, does a trending word thing already. Wouldn't be hard to do that for hashtags - probably even exists already somewhere.

I've actually included @nowbreezing.ntw.app into my app @skeetsapp.com for iOS / iPad OS because I found it super useful. Skeets already supports hashtags. When clicking on one it triggers a full term search on the meta tag. It also lets you add hashtags when composing a post.

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Interesting, are you scraping trending words from @nowbreezing.ntw.app? 👀

To be clear, a trending hashtag cloud is a new feature that's already up and running on @nowbreezing.ntw.app! Tracking currently-popular feeds is definitely a good idea I'll look into.

Here's the Top 10 Trending Words over the Past 10 Minutes: ️⚠️🌀2 - valentine's ️⚠️🌀1 - valentines ️⚠️🌀1 - おはよう 4th - valentine 5th - katie 6th - 花粉 7th - tightpussy 8th - 出勤 9th - parade 10th - roses (tap/click to see all posts with that word!) #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Not me, gimme #hashtags any day. Easier to return desired info. 1) Dependent on users including them in their posts 2) Independent on feeds having to be maintained, discontinued by their creators.

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Looking forward to tagging every Biden bot with #BabyKiller

Hashtags coming? I almost forgot how did they looked like... and I assume it's gonna happen on Tuesday, don't know which one exactly, but it will be Tuesday... and they won't work properly so they gonna need some more time to fix the bugs... 😳 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYBI...

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noooooooo

Will they retroactively work on all the hashtags I've used in hopes they'd eventually be introduced?

Great question...!

Excellent!

Another datapoint for your consideration, @chrismessina.me and @jay.bsky.team — we don't use hashtags and actively discourage their use with our Trusted Contributors. Furthermore, we won't use them in the future if and when they are implemented. The relevant section of our Guide with link.

The BluFly 🛩️ Guide | Hashtagsblufly.media In a word, don't. As in don't use them. Write well — you'll be discovered soon enough.

This isn't strictly accurate: "they do nothing to aid in the discoverability of your post. This is really what hashtags were originally intended to do way back when on that other platform." They were meant to help people each other, especially who attended the same IRL events.

Groups for Twitter; or A Proposal for Twitter Tag Channelsj.mp This is the post that I alluded to in my last one about Whispering Tweets. I'll make a disclaimer right now that the title of this post is misleading and actually not about Groups for Twitter. In fact...

Soon enough...? My material's already 200 years LATE; its principles may not be 'discovered' for another hundred. The Academic '30 year rule' (it takes about 30 years for the 'Leading Authority' in a subject to die, making it possible for 'new' ideas to be recognized) is way older than hashtags...

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#Hashtag 😊

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#girlboss

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