I've had so many conversations with internet and non-internet people alike in the last six months about getting off of corporate social media or otherwise taking control of your life online that I've started a conscious project to reboot it for myself and document the process. Here's the first post: https://ideastore.dev/blog/Start-the-Reboot/ #indieweb #deplatform #socialweb #blogs #blogging You can also follow the #octothorpe https://octothorp.es/~/reboot-blog

> "They were so aggressive in their text!"

< "Why, what'd they do?"

> "They used an ellipsis!"

Real conversation. I'm looking around for Alan Funt. I can't even imagine their reaction if it had been an octothorpe. [1]

#aggressive #punctuation #trigger #ellipsis #octothorpe #ampersand #hyphen #caret #parentheses #brackets #braces #asterisk

[1] Why yes, Firefox spellchecker, when I typed "octothorpe" I clearly really meant to type "#clotheshorse".

#ElonMusk wants #Twitter #Users to stop using the glorious #Octothorpe, aka #Hashtags, because he thinks they look #ugly

The dimwitted #douchebag said the system doesn't need them but instead of having his techs just turn them into links he told people to stop using them

What an absolute doorknob.

@tylrfishr Stoked to see what you're doing with Sill. We are also workin hard to, like, keep links and browsing part of using the internet. Every #octothorpe is also an #RSS feed, so you can get unified feeds from pages from infinite independent sites, like our fav, #weirdweboctober https://octothorp.es/~/weirdweboctober No AP / AT integration yet, but would love to chat sometime if you're interested.

@johncoxon I commend this idea for #octothorpe - or maybe not...

What do you call the symbol #

#Hashtag #NumberSign #Pound #Octothorpe #Poll #QoTD #QuestionOfTheDay

5 months into self-hosting my single-user instance, and I have zero complaints. The cost comes up to $6usd/mo. (~$8 cad, atm), and there’s headroom to spare. I’m running Akkoma on Fedora (which I thought was 38 but is actually 37 so I guess I should probably update it).

This is on a Vultr “Cloud Compute” server, with the “AMD High Performance” option (EPYC CPU + NVMe storage) on the lowest tier: 1 vCPU, 1GB memory, and 25GB storage. As an irritable person who hates waiting for things to load, it’s performed beautifully.

I can’t comment on Mastodon. While I’m told it’s a bit of a resource hog, especially as it scales, it might be perfectly fine for a single user instance, although when I was first considering self-hosting, I was advised that I’d be better off spending $15 or $20 minimum on a more capable server for Mastodon. I can’t refute or confirm that statement, so use your own judgement, but I don’t really like the way the Mastodon project is run, and I like being able to use Markdown, even if barely anybody will see it.

#One #day i will #learn how #to #use #hashtags correctly #here.

(or at least #remember to #include them #in my #posts.)

#octothorpe #£ #sha1

McCarthy and Jerry Jones showing Maher the VIP room during halftime

𐑡𐑳𐑕𐑑 𐑮𐑾𐑤𐑲𐑟𐑦𐑙 𐑞𐑨𐑑 ·𐑥𐑨𐑕𐑑𐑩𐑛𐑪𐑯𐑟 𐑕𐑻𐑗 𐑓𐑳𐑙𐑒𐑖𐑩𐑯𐑨𐑤𐑦𐑑𐑦 𐑣𐑨𐑟 𐑜𐑦𐑝𐑩𐑯 𐑥𐑰 𐑩𐑯 𐑩𐑒𐑿𐑑 𐑒𐑱𐑕 𐑝 𐑪𐑒𐑑𐑴𐑔𐑹𐑐𐑼𐑦.

→ Just realising that Mastodon’s search functionality has given me an acute case of octothorpery.

Probably time to stop lurking and do one of those #econtwitter #introductions. Hi! I'm an applied economic theorist at the #FTC working on #platforms and #consumerSearch. I'm particularly interested in platform #governance questions and #behavioral search experiments. I've also recently developed an interest in #antitrust for no reason in particular.

I've been told that #hashtags are a big thing on this website (service? software network?). Did I use enough?

#hashtag #poundsign #octothorpe #numbersign #poundtag #octotag #numbertag #hashthorpe #poundthorpe #numberthorpe

@owashii #octothorpe

@Erstwhile @melvin I wrote a whole long piece on this, peppered with #hashtags (in which all you do is add a # before a word while typing) before trying to correct it and messing up a Delete and Redraft!

Here's a (slightly) shorter version:

The symbol goes back to #roman times. Was called #Pound for a long time. Originally an abbreviation of lb or weight in pounds.

Eventually meaning changed to becoming simply a way to denote numbers e.g #1, #2, #3. Then in #1960s Bell Labs took it, called it the #octothorpe and stuck it on phone keypads.

In early #1910s the term hash started being used for #military stripes on #uniforms but in #1980s the name hash started being assocaited with the #octothorpe symbol. From there were into modern history and early days of the internet.

In terms of social media the hash symbol + characters is a way of tagging content so a hash tag. hashtag being a shorter version is also easier programatically to identify in content.

So #hashtag is not the symbol alone. It's the symbol + the word. We went WW1 to 80s. 80s to IT/tech. IT/tech to social networking. Tada!

Now, most important thing is that there is no #algorithm on #Mastodon so people won't find your petition posts without them.

Stick a # in front of #petition and they just might!

Give it a try it's super easy and most Mastodon clients will autocomplete them for you too.

Octothorpe House by Mork-Ulnes Architects

"Octothorpe House is as versatile as the # symbol for which it is named… Designed by Mork-Ulnes Architects (MUA) … The floor plan is a grid, but from outside, the multiple wings, façades, and half-gables often look asymmetrical, presenting a varying aspect at every turn and elevation…"

https://nuvomagazine.com/magazine/winter-2022/octothorpe-house-by-mork-ulnes-architects

Missed opportunity to call it "hash house" but still pretty cool.