@larsmbLars Marowsky-Brée 😷 Sure Using #under_score is an alternative, but a poor one. Exactly what is the reason to not also support the dash? Tradition, legacy or documented breakage? 
@GargronEugen Rochko 
@evanEvan Prodromou
@jwildeboerJan Wildeboer 😷
@larsmbLars Marowsky-Brée 😷 @evanEvan Prodromou People use dashes as punctuation--for example, double dash instead of the em dash. If I said "I love #Mastodon--though I am biased", I would be very surprised the hashtag got turned into "Mastodon though". Some people don't bother to double dash and use a single dash for the same purpose.
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