I missed that; OP is from a Lemmy instance indeed.
I think it’s the other way around then: those hashtags turn into actual hashtags when federated to the microblog fediverse. I verified this with mastodon. Only works in the title though because post bodies don’t get federated in Lemmy for some reason.
It’s a microblog post. You can simply @ a Lemmy community and the very same post becomes a Lemmy post in that community too.
It’s quite useful to reach i.e. a niche audience and you shouldn’t make fun of people utilising the fediverse to its full extent.
But their username has “Lemmy” in it. It’s a Lemmy post
I missed that; OP is from a Lemmy instance indeed.
I think it’s the other way around then: those hashtags turn into actual hashtags when federated to the microblog fediverse. I verified this with mastodon. Only works in the title though because post bodies don’t get federated in Lemmy for some reason.