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Should we be using hashtags and mentions more? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by effingjoe@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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I imagine many of us are here from reddit, where hashtags weren't really a thing and in many places mentions were actively discouraged (/r/politics I'm looking at you). However, since everything we post or comment on kbin (and lemmy) has the potential of getting federated on a mastodon server, which leans heavily on hashtags and mentions, should we be promoting the use of hashtags and mentions, in an effort to-- I dunno-- kind of tie everything together a little more neatly?

If the answer is "yeah, we probably should" then I'd also suggest that there be an option added to the settings to auto-populate the hashtags associated with the magazine to every post and another to add them to every top-level comment, very similar to how we have the option to auto-populate mentions for posts and comments.

Does this "Tags" field, when making a new thread/post, actually do anything with respect to this, or is that more for kbin-related stuff?

Oh, and, uh... #hashtags #kbin #fediverse

Feels weird to do that.

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[โ€“] Roundcat@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oddly though my lemmy account and mastodon account can't see or interact with each other.

[โ€“] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think right now, kbin instances are better at federating with Mastodon than Lemmy.