Doctor M. Popular<p>In this episode of Press This, I asked <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@chrismessina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chrismessina</span></a></span> if Google Search is becoming less useful for most small websites, and how the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> could fix that. We also talk about Chris's early history with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordPress</span></a>, open web standards, and why hashtags still play an important role for the health of the decentralized web. </p><p>You can listen to our conversation, or read the full transcript here: <a href="https://torquemag.io/2024/02/press-this-hashtag-creator-future-of-wordpress-open-web/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">torquemag.io/2024/02/press-thi</span><span class="invisible">s-hashtag-creator-future-of-wordpress-open-web/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IDemandHashtags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IDemandHashtags</span></a></p>