What do we all think about #hashtags in social media? honest opinions, and from the standpoint that they don't help algos anymore these days (no algo or discovery utility)

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Stonez the Organic

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I've seen #hashtags play a key role in connecting people with specific interests, events, or movements. They may not be algorithmic champs anymore, but they helped a collection of mine…

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I think hashtags are closer to memes in dialog now. For instance #adulting But beyond that, I think they represent easy ways to filter content (thinking instagram style here) and…

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luduvigo 🚀🚀🚀

I think that #hashtags were a way to be relevant and get discovered in 2010s. A sort of social-media-SEO. Today the best way to be relevant is to connect with your community. In…

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Hashtags not much, but $Dollar tags give high certainty to your algo. We use it for token sentiment analysis

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Positive Mindset

They still help in searching. The more popular hashtags you have, the more visible to other users. I still use Hashtags on Tiktok, Instagram or Twitter to reach more people and it…

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#hashtagshavebecomepartofinternetculture #ergohashtagsareuseful #simples !!

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#footlens lovely hashtag

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in general not sure, wouldn't miss hashtags probably ;-) for #lens ;-) using hashtags is afaik the only feature to increase the chance of finding posts or comments in the…

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Very useful on Twitter where I often have a specific goal in kind as it is more an “information-oriented” social network imo, but never used on Instagram, Facebook etc where…

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I like them because they help with search

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I like them for discovery of content, although they are not a perfect system they do help with organziation

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They're still useful for searching/finding stuff, right?

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kinda pointless since you can just search for words in the post. maybe if the backend added them invisibly for some kind of grouping for search or discoverabillity

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@investidorston1

I viewed hashtags more as an expression to summarize the point or give a message based on the write up that preceded it. Not so much as an algo thing.…

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I am also mostly using them for bookmarks

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Cat and Weed Lover

i think its essential, i usually use hashtag feature on Twitter for many purposes including work and entertainment

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Hashtags are relevant when you'd like categorize your content or wanna find posts in a specific topic. On the other hand, hashtaging every is unnecesary.

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Only used them during first years of instagram (the infamous #finnishboy szn) Never use them on twitter on own posts but I do check the trending topics daily. > does…

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They help you find the information you need 😊

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I use hashtags to find things I'm looking for.

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Hsshtags don't matter if the search feature is strong

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They’re pretty useful for streamlining contents towards your targeted audience

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I see them as a trends every trend has a hashtag lol

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People are used to hashtags for promoting their content, get more visibility or push up a topic. There are not too many ways for relatively unpopular profiles to attract new…

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I think #hashtags are useful when searching for posts.

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Hashtags were first introduced to help algorithms find stuff easier and make it more popular, but now there's so much stuff online that hashtags don't work as well as they…

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Aravind S Kumar

Hashtags are fun though..good old days..some still rely on them 😁

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#HashTag is really useful to reach a vast community. Hashtag help small creators viral in the space

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