#why-we-made-octothorpes
- Why We Made Octothorpes -
https://ideastore.dev/blog/why-tho
So my friend Nik and I made a way to use hashtags on any website. You set up little networks, like webrings, so that all the sites on the network can see the hashtags just like they were part of the same platform. We’re calling it Octothorpes and if you just want to get started using them, go here.
- After xoxo
https://mmmx.cloud/after-xoxo
There was a particularly strong thread that ran through most of my conversations at XOXO this year. It was braided from questions (pleas?) like the following:
- Hashtags, Why Tho?
https://nikolas.ws/why-thorpes-tho
- I Can't Stop Galaxy Braining
https://mmmx.cloud/i-cannot-stop-galaxy-braining
I have very strong, interconnected synesthesia. This makes categorization of really any kind rather non-linear for me. I’m glad to have avoided developing a ...
- We really like personal sites but the internet has been turning into poisonous garbage at an alarming rate
https://mmmx.cloud/we-really-like-personal-sites-but-the-internet-has-been-turning-into-poisonous-garbage-at-an-alarming-rate
Part of me wants to talk about how fun the internet was when it was just websites. But we barely had tags then, let alone hashtags. Much like the “Y2K Garage...
- We got used to talking to the internet itself instead of people on the internet
https://mmmx.cloud/we-got-used-to-talking-to-the-internet-itself-instead-of-people-on-the-internet
Follow #why-we-made-octothorpes
on RSS or use the
JSON API
curl -X GET \
-H "Content-type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
"https://octothorp.es/~/why-we-made-octothorpes"