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🚨 $NVDA 🚨

Why is Nvidia trending today? 🤔

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@stonkz Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!

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@dhamlinmusic @stonkz It does, but hopefully a human checks it from time to time. It would benefit both the blindness community and the finance community to use clear hashtags

@dhamlinmusic @NVAccess

definitely not automated - will keep it in mind! just not sure how I would use that as a canonical standard

@stonkz @dhamlinmusic Thanks for your help! To be honest, aside from about yourself, 99.9% of the time is used to refer to NVIDIA stocks, it's spam / scam - I certainly wouldn't follow the hashtag for stock information - I'd follow the Stocks or Finance hashtags you also use. I'd be surprised if it's the only one - just looking back through, 99% of toots about SNOW are not about the stock - and that's what I was trying to do - ensure people following a hashtag get primarily ONE subject

@NVAccess I thought we were mostly using NVDASR as the hashtag for NVDA? I started that on Twitter because stock related things regularly used the NVDA hashtag.

@jcsteh There weren't too many stock related things on here when we joined, so I've been trying to get the jump on them - no one actually calls NVIDIA - it makes sense for them to use if that's what they want to talk about. Most people are good with it, but I generally tag our posts with both and just in case

@NVAccess @jcsteh I've used #NVDASR entirely since I got here myself.

@jcsteh @NVAccess I don't think the average Mastodon user is big on AI investments. The distinct possibility of them gloating when the stock price tanks still exists, though.

@jscholes @jcsteh That was my reasoning for pushing the stock people to use the company name. If you use NVIDIA, there's no confusion - there is no other entity that I'm aware of called NVIDIA. And even though their code is NVDA, the screen reader IS much more widely known as NVDA. Users who have followed us post-twitter, might not actually know what NVDASR is. In any case, if we use NVDA and stock people use NVIDIA, then everyone can follow what they actually want - one, the other, or both