#doener — Public Fediverse posts

A #Fediverse tech idea I've been considering for a while.

Hashtags can sometimes be annoying, right? Their primary application is finding posts related to a certain topic, including following one. Therefore, if I look for "horses", I want to find everything horse-related.

The following hashtags should therefore lead to the same set of posts:
- #horse
- #horses
- #equines
- #equine
- #horsetodon

Right? But that's not a reality. Some people tag with one of them, with multiple, or with none at all.

Similarly, #Döner, #Doener and perhaps even #Doner should lead to the same set of posts, right? And what about British-American-splits like how #Localization is #Localisation, and perhaps even #l10n as well? And #LGBT, #LGBTQ, #LBGTQ+, #LGBT+, #LGBTQIA and so on and so on also really should be one hashtag.

So what to do?

I propose:
We should introduce a second symbol for something like "fuzzy hashtags". Not the '#' symbol, but another; perhaps '&' or '~'.

That way I could tag my post '~horse', and it could appear on all hashtag feeds concerning the different spellings of horses! Or I could search for such a fuzzy hashtag.

The different variants could be crowdsourced, or overridden by instance mods. You could also opt-out of that system - your posts showing up in fuzzy searches, most likely.

This would also fix languages like German, where you have many inflected forms: #Männer #Mann #Mannes #Manns #Männern #Männers and so on should all lead to the same result.

Behold what I have to do to sign off on this post:
#MarkupLanguages #MarkupLanguage #Markup

#2nd #protipp if this happens in front of a #bank or #highrisk #area e.g.# trainstation or a #combination of #both you can be assured that security or cops will arrive within 10 to 20 secs

When #cops or #security asks you if you was #involved say #no and #calmly #leave :)

#noone will #question a #calm #doener eater

#2nd #protipp if this happens in front of a #bank or #highrisk #area e.g.# trainstation or a #combination of #both you can be assured that security or cops will arrive within 10 to 20 secs

When #cops or #security asks you if you was #involved say #no and #calmly #leave :)

#noone will #question a #calm #doener eater

#2nd #protipp if this happens in front of a #bank or #highrisk #area e.g.# trainstation or a #combination of #both you can be assured that security or cops will arrive within 10 to 20 secs

When #cops or #security asks you if you was #involved say #no and #calmly #leave :)

#noone will #question a #calm #doener eater

#2nd #protipp if this happens in front of a #bank or #highrisk #area e.g.# trainstation or a #combination of #both you can be assured that security or cops will arrive within 10 to 20 secs

When #cops or #security asks you if you was #involved say #no and #calmly #leave :)

#noone will #question a #calm #doener eater

#2nd #protipp if this happens in front of a #bank or #highrisk #area e.g.# trainstation or a #combination of #both you can be assured that security or cops will arrive within 10 to 20 secs

When #cops or #security asks you if you was #involved say #no and #calmly #leave :)

#noone will #question a #calm #doener eater

#reallifestories

Want to end a #streetfight of #two #teenager #groups as #swiftly as #possible (this #advice might not apply to #usa )

if possible #contact #other #people #before #stepping in

Purchase a #doener steps inside the #confrontation #eat your #doener #sandwich as #calm as #possible

#watch the #amazed #crowds #looks and #questions #unfolding

"is this a doener in your hand"

#chuckle insyde put a #pokerface on and calmly #deescalate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJeSJhb3Hc4