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I am taller than this definitely-full-sized horse. #horsetodon

Barn mates pulled my girl out yesterday and took an adorable Halloween photo of her!

#horses #horsesofmastodon #horsetodon

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

Ajattelin #lenkillä viedä Laikan vähän kahlaamaan (se ei ui) Siltapuistoon, mutta siellä oli ruuhka.

#Laika #ÄänislinnanLaika #koira #koirat #dog #dogs #dogstodon #DogsOfMastodon #hevonen #hevoset #heppa #hepat #horse #horses #horsetodon #HorsesOfMastodon

So, I have my own opinions on this, but just for fun:

Which is better (in your opinion): mules, donkeys, or horses?

#equines #horses #donks #asstodon #donkeys #mule #mules #horse #horsetodon

Had a vet appointment yesterday for my big girl. She had to be sedated because obviously hair clippers are murder-bots. Then she fell asleep on my shoulder. Yes, she was snoring. #Horses #Pets #Horsetodon #HorsesOfMastodon

Unexpected equine #blep from an Appaloosa horse named Patrick. Thank you @LisSmith for sharing Patrick's blep. #horsetodon #horses
#TongueOutTuesday

Unexpected equine #blep from an Appaloosa horse named Patrick. Thank you @LisSmith for sharing Patrick's blep. #horsetodon #horses

I'm practicing creating animations for my mapping progress of equine assisted centers using OpenStreetMap data (ATYL) and creating a new map using uMap. http://u.osmfr.org/m/1080742/
Tools: ArcPro and Overpass Turbo.

#gischat #OpenStreetMap #Atyl #horse #horsetodon #horsesofmastodon #equine #equineassisted #horses #maps #esri #uMap

I've created my first draft proposal for a new OSM tag for facilities specializing in equine-assisted therapies for patients.

I'm still waiting to join the tagging list for the official RFC and would appreciate any feedback prior to going live. TIA.

Link --> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Healthcare:speciality%3Dequine-assisted

#OSM #horse #horses #Horsetodon #equineassisted #equineassistedtherapy #EAT #accessibility #OpenStreetMap