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 Hashtags are useless. 
 #HashTagsAreUseless

Except when you are trying to find a subject that you can easily research hash tags are useless.  
 Yeah! What happened to good old fashioned keyword search? Any kind of unmoderated tagging system is pretty pointless I think. 
 When I use them in my telegram groups it's easy to call them when I'm looking for information. 

Fur example say I'm traveling and I've shared my tickets with my wife I hash tag tickets or other things so that you can find them fast. 

On one of my NOSTR apps the website publishes hashtags as subjects and it makes for ready navigation.

I see them as intentionally calling out a subject. 

Like if you want to make connections you search a hashtags.  
 Curated verses moderated.  
 Whoops, replied to the wrong person by mistake. Fiatjaf is much more based. 
 Is there a layer2 search engine that crawls relays yet? 
 What’s better than hashtags?  
 plain hash 
 Zaptags when?  
 What are your hashtag in timeline?  
 Number 145 iris graph
hashtag GSC360(8) Sports(5)   
 #isthisyournextattack? 
 #asknostr lies
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 My wife wouldn't be here if it weren't for obscure yarn hashtags. BUT...maybe lists or something are the modern solution. 
 You mean @yarnlady is your wife? 
 Yep 
 👀👀 
 Ugly maybe. Not entirely useless though. 

#introductions 

#nostr 

#asknostr 

#plebchain 

#SatsBySW 

#yogastr 

#catstr 

We gotta organize the cat content, ser 
 No they're not 😛 
 #thisisnttrueandyouknowit 
 #penisbutter

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 Pound signs are useful 
 No estoy de acuerdo #introductions ha ayudado mucho a los nuevos 
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 As a taxonomy yea … as a folksonomy … not so much.

We need universal translator to map structural classifications to colloquial terms.    
 # 🫥 
 #agree 
 I’m using hashtags to filter content that’ll appear on my domain

 https://mantratattoos.ink  
 I like hashtags to discover people writing about topics that I’m interested in like #monero, #privacy and #dev

So I wouldn’t call it useless. 
 Inútil es si alguien zapea esa nota 👇
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 #garlic 
 Yes and no 
 Hashtags are really useful. I like following them.
Yea some people abuse them but overall they are useful.  
 #engagementfarming  
 Disagree

Hashtags get me more engagement

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 Yeah, it's kinda like bookmarks that one pushes on everyone else... Wanna see my bookmarks??? No thank you. I have my own, thank you very much!  😁  Wanna see my linktree??? Hhmmm? 😅 
 Maybe they’re not the perfect solution, but they are very useful at getting me topical posts and letting me reach people interested I. The same topic  
 #uselessHashtags 
 #hashtags are useful only if the posts you’re looking for have them. We need #autohashtags 
 Edit #70 something 🤣

What are you up to?  
 Check out our #CyberHerd tag.   We find it very useful. 
 Para o dono desta bodega, é inútil mesmo...
Eu que lute... #nostr

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 #fiatjaf  
 The real answer is always within... 👀🧘‍♂️

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 #HashtagsAreUseless 
 YES 

#YESTR  
 (but also more seriously: no)  
 .....#no.str 
 I agree but couldn’t come up with an alternative  
 🫡🧡💜 
 #? 
 @M 
😀 
 🎯 
 Not true 
 @ notes IDs 
 Seriously? 🤨 
 Sounds like a troll 
 Na not really but to each their....

#brah #asknostr #btc #search #sats 
 it works for twitter so copy that system 
 #wisdom 
 functioning as discoverability catalysts, they are indeed useful. for all the rest, they are useless. #nostr