We are entering a period of overlapping crises

Re:We are entering a period of overlapping crises by GaryBluto on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:58PM (#50109404)

The whole thing reads like a bizarre, vaguely schizotypal manifesto, complete with it's own confusing form eccentricities.

I checked the "hashtags" link and was met with the following: "Hashtags are a critique and a rallying cry to gather round. They are the protest banners of the openweb"

Nothing says protest banner of the "openweb"(?) like a convention invented by Twitter.

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Re:We are entering a period of overlapping crises by Terr_ on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:09PM (#50109544)

Or IRC channels.

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Re:We are entering a period of overlapping crises by GaryBluto on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:16PM (#50109630)

You are right that hash symbols were used for IRC channels but I'm almost certain that hashtags were a Twitter invention.

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Re:We are entering a period of overlapping crises by Terr_ on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:09PM (#50110275)

That seems a little tautological, like "Maybe Unix had directories, but Windows Folders are purely a Microsoft invention."

They're both a symbol-with-label text convention for users, and in each case it designates a topic and mechanism for users of the service to converge-on the topic.

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Re:We are entering a period of overlapping crises by jerlam on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:50PM (#50110015)

Sometimes it's hard to tell if a well-formatted blog is popular or it's just a single person screaming into the void. We don't have pageview counters anymore.

I didn't see any comments on this page, nor did the linked Mastodon accounts have much engagement, and that suggests the latter.

Also, both the number of and length of posts started increasing dramatically in 2024, which might just be a strange coincidence.

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