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'You're an amazing father, Elon': Musk accused of running burner on X again—and nuking account who outed him (www.dailydot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

It's because it comes from the lb pound symbol, which became ℔, which when written quickly and sloppily became a sort of hash symbol, and then it became the # symbol we know today. Pound is the more accurate name for the context it came from.

https://www.pixartprinting.co.uk/blog/hash-symbol-secrets/