I like how the "global feed" tag was coined as a one-off joke and then it rapidly started catching on as a serious thing. Fascinating organic community development, and I'm totally here for it.
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in reply to @NibbleNueva's post:
The origin of hashtags was of similar nature - it was a way to coordinate posts on a subject, and then it got adopted into the platform because of how useful it was, back when that platform actually tried to make the user experience work. I like it.
It has been so long since they were useful for this that I had completely forgotten this was something I would even want.
Back in the late aughts it was the closest thing to community discoverability that the site had available... kinda wish that self-organization of communities and emergent social media mechanics were easier to accomplish tbh.
Lots of hard problems to be sure – but it's cool as heck to be able to return to fundamental patterns like "lightweight hypertext for user content".
Somehow, this short throwaway post is my most-liked post so far. I don't know exactly how many Likes (thank goodness), but my notifications keep lighting up, more than they have for anything else. Go figure, lol.