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1. switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2019 17:11:13 UTC switching.social

   • Brett Sheffield

   @dentangle

   Hashtag-only searches is to prevent trolls from looking for trouble.

   If you have full text search, people who frequently get bullied/trolled will have to start avoiding the words that the bullies/trolls flock to (for example homophobes search for "LGBT" etc).

   By using hashtags, it means that you're only joining in public conversations that you actively want to take part in.

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2019 17:15:08 UTC switching.social

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     • Brett Sheffield

     @dentangle

     Also, it helps to keep conversations on topic because you can only find the conversation through that topic's hashtag.