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Weird how this article has a "hashtag" but its not a link, so its not actually a hashtag.

Medium actually has a "tag" feature, but this ain't it: https://medium.com/tag/KAX17 (404 Page Not Found)

Of course, it's Medium.com policy never to imply ownership in the event of a hashtag. We have to use the indefinite article, "a hashtag," never ... your hashtag.

https://youtu.be/GfqEBVFHnTg

Twitter users started using hashtags well before the Twitter platform automatically turned them into links. The important part of a hashtag is the syntactic # and not the HTML <a> tag.

That's useful if you can do exact text searches, which are increasingly not supported

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