My impression from when I’ve encountered this is that it is an attempt to repel bots.

Speculating/knowing about the reason doesn’t help when I’m confronted with having to input the password *6mA*P7CCuVyHo8kh%x34!63wm23&uhzSMY3Xy3$*8^%7j$VeH^7

I took no steps towards this. I can’t see any hashtags from my end.

I don’t use mastodon but I vaguely recall something about a bot that would add hashtags to lemmy posts to get them visibility on there. It was opt-in at some level but not per-user or per-post. Maybe the community moderator? Or the instance admin had to install something?

I posted to my instance here https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/obsidianmd@lemmy.world and the comm’s home instance is https://lemmy.world/c/obsidianmd. Maybe someone at one of those can tell you how it happened.

I clicked through from your comment and I found my profile on your instance, https://masto.ai/@laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I see one other post has been tagged with #piracy which I also didn’t take any active steps towards. Maybe if you use this method to look at a more active user you can deduce where it’s coming from.

Sorry I was not clear. I want to use the lemmy formatting in obsidian and have it correctly render the effect. They for some reason invented their own novel spoiler code that nobody else uses or supports.

See the post, or documentation (ctrl-f “spoiler”).

Or click the [!] button in the WYSIWYG toolbar above the comment text entry box:

If I paste your text into lemmy I get this: <details> <summary>Short Summary</summary> <p>text to hide</p> </details>

If there would be a way to make the lemmy ::: spoiler code style render as details. That’s what I want. So I can copy/paste the exact same text and it will work in both places.

Sometimes I have resorted to searching blog domains and it isn’t bad for the right queries.

You know what the claw end of the hammer is for right?

Actually 2 hammers are really good to take out a nail sometimes. You use one hammer to tap the claw of the other one under the nail.

Honestly I have a cat paw type nail puller but 9/10 hammer is the answer.

I agree. So much of the web now functionally happens on the socials which are not indexed/accessible to crawlers.