cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/20469954
If so, why and what do you tag them? What fits your bill as to tag and remember someone and to just leave it be?
Oh, bonus question, if you tag people, what am I tagged as? 🥺
I do, only rarely.
Your tag would be @OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
This is what we are talking about, right? Tagging others?
But the other comments seem to be talking about some kind of labelling. Did Lemmy add a new feature that I’m unaware of?
No, not any I know of. Tagging is also commonly called mentioning here.
edit: Oh, I think I know what they mean. It’s the labels or badges you can put on people, I think. But that is not a native Lemmy feature. Thunder and Summit have them, for example.
OP should make clear whether they mean mentioning/tagging or labeling people in apps.
Some apps let you put a tag on someone’s name so anytime you see them, you also see the tag next to their name.
Found the answer in the parent thread, thank you @Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club:
That’s a mention, not a tag. A tag is a private description you save about a user. Only apps have this fearure.
It’s a little weird that they took a well established term (in social media context: tag, id by which to mention a user, also known as ‘tagging’) and gave it a wholly different meaning (tag: label).
Yes. 💜 for my favourite people. 🙂 for people I’ve interacted with once or twice and would like to interact with more. ⭐ for people that I haven’t interacted with but always enjoy their posts and comments. ✊ for similar reasons to the star but I like their politics.
I’ve also given one person a red flag 🟥 but haven’t seen them again. There’s a couple more I could probably give red flags to but also I would prefer to see more friendly symbols in my feed than danger warnings.
And seeing as you asked so nicely, I haven’t tagged you yet but I think I’ll give you a 🙂.
I use a browser, not an app, to view lemmy
why is it not surprising that the .worlder’s use them?
I dont. In fact I didn‘t know it was possible and just learned about it through your post.
No. I do remember some usernames if they frequently take stances but will never judge them for a single comment. The userbase is small enough to know nearly everyone.
hello, do you prefer being called Geneva?
I generally tag people who are being shitty. It’s totally fine if they disagree with me about things, or downvote me or whatever. But if they just insult others, or openly lie/mislead, or yell at others without bringing an actual argument, then they start getting tags. After enough tags, they get blocked.
The good news is, you have no tags! :)
I only tag people being dickheads, doesn’t happen often, I have like 3 people tagged
