On this remarkably rare shot (ca. 1951), #JoanMastodon is seen manually following the first #hashtag, way before the feature actually made it to the official release of #Mastodon.

Further evidence that her works were instrumental to the popularity of the network we enjoy today.

(edit: thanks for helping identify, on the right of the picture, that #ClaudetteMastodon herself, the daughter of Joan, is taking the notes of the experiment)

On this invisibilised and therefore rare photo, #JoanMastodon and #ClaudetteMastodon (respectively the wife and daughter of #JohnMastodon, too frequently erased from the History of the federated network!) are seen hard-wiring some toots to some hashtags, in an early prototype of instance. (ca. 1926)