While not automated, typing those terms into the search bar does function to retrieve posts with those hashtag terms. So OP is not confused - rather, they are taking us all #backtoschool:-).
Having just tried it, no. There are many instances of the word “school”, but I only saw a single one with “#school”.
I often want to use the search to find things, but cannot due to the deluge of irrelevant crap. Also the terms seem broken in that while some work 100% of the time, others 100% of the time fail to function as stated - e.g. asking for “all” results from the last “top 6 hours” ago returns MANY comments from 10 months in the past, though no posts prior to 6 hours ago, so it functions only halfway i.e. it does not work at all if my aim was to find a particular thing.
So if OP wants to use hashtags, and they help, why try to restrict them? We are supposed to be the welcoming Fediverse here!!? :-)
Having just tried it, no. There are many instances of the word “school”, but I only saw a single one with “#school”.
Aye, but if that’s the case, if people suddenly started using #school as a ‘hashtag’ for their posts, you’d have the same issue with finding many instances of the word. It’s just unique right now.
That’s not really a tag though, you’d have the same search result just searching for “school”, right?
So it seems relevant to me that the search results are not identical?
Beyond that, it would find many more instances if people started using it, ofc, but the manner in which people use it may still facilitate easier searching - e.g. instead of casually bantering around with “school”, “college”, “education”, “edumacashiun”, if you knew that a specific term was used like “#school”, then you could still find it easier.
Anyway, I am not here to defend using hashtags - I have no skin in that game and truly don’t care one way or another. I just did not want OP to feel attacked like we are a bunch of Karens asking to speak to the manager about their choice of language:-P. Lemmy has little enough content as it is - we want moar content creators, not to turn away people offering us free stuff to distract us from the pain of existence enjoy!?:-)
Where do you think we are?
While not automated, typing those terms into the search bar does function to retrieve posts with those hashtag terms. So OP is not confused - rather, they are taking us all #backtoschool:-).
That’s not really a tag though, you’d have the same search result just searching for “school”, right?
I’m with Pat on this one. More hash, less hashtags.
Having just tried it, no. There are many instances of the word “school”, but I only saw a single one with “#school”.
I often want to use the search to find things, but cannot due to the deluge of irrelevant crap. Also the terms seem broken in that while some work 100% of the time, others 100% of the time fail to function as stated - e.g. asking for “all” results from the last “top 6 hours” ago returns MANY comments from 10 months in the past, though no posts prior to 6 hours ago, so it functions only halfway i.e. it does not work at all if my aim was to find a particular thing.
So if OP wants to use hashtags, and they help, why try to restrict them? We are supposed to be the welcoming Fediverse here!!? :-)
Aye, but if that’s the case, if people suddenly started using #school as a ‘hashtag’ for their posts, you’d have the same issue with finding many instances of the word. It’s just unique right now.
What I replied to though said this:
So it seems relevant to me that the search results are not identical?
Beyond that, it would find many more instances if people started using it, ofc, but the manner in which people use it may still facilitate easier searching - e.g. instead of casually bantering around with “school”, “college”, “education”, “edumacashiun”, if you knew that a specific term was used like “#school”, then you could still find it easier.
Anyway, I am not here to defend using hashtags - I have no skin in that game and truly don’t care one way or another. I just did not want OP to feel attacked like we are a bunch of Karens asking to speak to the manager about their choice of language:-P. Lemmy has little enough content as it is - we want moar content creators, not to turn away people offering us free stuff to
distract us from the pain of existenceenjoy!?:-)