Not sure where this belongs to: I know and understand why micro.blog doesn’t support hashtags so far. However, if following ActivityPub people from elsewhere (Mastodon included), likeliness to receive posts containing hashtags is rather high. For what I see, in most of these cases(?) these hashtags essentially are HTML anchors pointing to a hashtag search on the sending platform. Friendica, Mastodon, Hubzilla, Firefish and some others will rewrite these to trigger a search on ones home platform instead, which is probably what I want in order to see related posts and be able to interact with them.
On micro.blog, lacking the idea of local hashtags and subsequently a hashtag search altogether, hashtags in inbound posts remain what they are - posts to search for a hashtag on the sending system. This is not a really big thing but it feels strange when used to working with other (non)federated platforms, and it has a mere practical drawback of not being able to in any way interact with or respond to any posts seen there.
Not sure what to request here - except for: It would be really really great to have a meaningful way of interacting with hashtags on micro.blog. In this particular case: I’d probably best like to click on a hashtag and see all (received) posts with that hashtag but on micro.blog so to be able to respond to these and communicate with these users… .
What do people think here? Is that a need someone else sees, as well? Or is it just me and I’d better be quiet? 
Thanks,
Kristian
It’s not just you that wants a form of hashtag support, but you’re just bargaining with yourself at this point. MB has taken a clear stance on this and building half support for external services is as difficult as building full support while simultaneously creating a fractured user experience and test surface.
I highly doubt you’ll see any special casing— either MB will add hashtags or not, and there’s very little reason to believe there’s any movement toward hashtags.
Yeah, I … kind of know. Just wanted to point out that very particular aspect as I’ve been trying to use micro.blog as my main AP/Mastodon/Fediverse client recently, and while a lot of things work quite well and pleasing right now, the hashtag thing is a bit annoying as, as soon as interacting with data from anywhere else, expected behaviour breaks.
Adding another question here: Is there a way in micro.blog to hide parts of the posts locally (timeline, hosted micro.blog)? Like, I wonder whether it makes sense to (either coming from the blog I import from or actually doing so manually using “#<term”) add hashtags that aren’t displayed on micro.blog but only used for crossposting to external services where they work and make sense (such as Bluesky or pixelfed)? Still struggling to find a smart handling for that with what’s given on micro.blog… .
My advice is not to worry about it. People understand what you mean and what’s happening. But if you really care, if that service has the ability to customize a feed, I’d edit the content in the feed to exclude that data entirely, hide it in comments or an embed, or something similar that would make the content “invisible”.
Ok, thanks. So I’ll see whether I can fix this on the sending side of things. 