Submitted 11 months ago by clgoh@lemmy.ca to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/7/23992357/threads-hashtags-tags
“Tags work a little differently than hashtags do on platforms like Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). When composing a Threads post, you start a tag by tapping the # symbol and then typing out your topic. But instead of being limited to just one word, you can type out a whole phrase (with spaces!) and add special characters, according to Mosseri. However, you can only make one tag per post.”
I wonder how the tags will work if they federate with ActivityPub.
So they forked mastodon and gutted the features and are now reimplementing them in a way that’s fundamentally incompatible with upstream? Sounds a lot like something Silicon Valley would do.
Threads does not appear to be a fork of Mastodon or anything else.
It also doesn’t federate yet and I’m not convinced it’s actually going to, so I think posts about it might be off-topic for a community about the Fediverse.
I also think the federation promise was just all smoke and mirrors to let the European Union allow them to publish the app.
I don’t think we will ever see proper federation on Threads, even though I’d surely like it.
As they haven't said they aren't coming to the Fediverse and if anything say they are still looking to Federate it's still on-topic as of the moment but yes it feels like they are kicking the can down the road or have lost it completely and just don't want to tell anyone yet.
Truth Social is a Mastodon fork.
Threads is just Instagram with text posts and a different representation of replies.
Google and XMPP history is repeating.
instead of being limited to just one word, you can type out a whole phrase
That’s…not how tags work…
Isn’t that how tumblr has been doing tags for years?
#Yep finally they can all have their multi paragraphs long tags and have them working as they want them to work
#what bro you dont like sentences why not its good for everyone to be able to just do whatever they want its totes okay because then you can like be like really specific about your hashtag so only like minded people can see your stuff and you can make real connections fr fr no cap
They’re allowing hashtags to have multiple words in order to make them uncompatible with both Xitter and Mastodon…
That wouldn't make them incompatible with the fediverse. ActivityPub can support tags with spaces, even though no current fediverse platform allows it. A post with a hashtag with spaces would still federate to other services and if that services is robust enough, should still be linked up so that you can click it to see the tag feed.
PeerTube allows spaces in its tags, they get stripped out at one end or the other when a video federates to Mastodon to make them compatible.
Their choice. Let them be t
There can be only one per post?
That is a magazine (like on /kbin), not a hashtag!
Ding, they added magazines
Would be cool now thinking if there was a way to view tags as magazines on Lemmy
Tags are a workaround for bad search systems. They’ve been a solution looking for a problem since platforms started getting better at search.
Imho, Mastodon should be using hashtags like subreddits/lemmy-communities (they have moderators who can control what gets posted under that hashtag) then they’d have a real reason to exist on that platform now that they’ve got proper search, especially since a F/OSS platform like Mastodon has difficulty with moderating.
I use hashtags on Mastodon all the time. They're definitely useful and easier than subcommunities.
as a tumblr user for about ten years now i wish more socials did multi word tags
also i really hope threads does activitypub soon. i love threads but i little too be able to combine socials and follow the more mainstream people on threads as well as the people i follow on mastodon
Yeah I really do hope they focus on federate in the near future as well as it will allow a wider audience of people to join the Fediverse without having to explain it. Knowing they are still working on the platform is at least a slight positive to them wanting to make it a go to platform for people.
Unless there's bigger news you've not mentioned, this has nothing to do with the fediverse.
Threads is planning to federate, so it adopting more Fediverse-compatible features is relevant.
But this doesn’t look like it will be compatible with current ActivityPub, right?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Tags — basically hashtags with a twist — are now rolling out globally on Threads, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday.
Tags work a little differently than hashtags do on platforms like Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
When composing a Threads post, you start a tag by tapping the # symbol and then typing out your topic.
“If you share on Threads, [tags are] a great way to help connect with people who are interested in the topics you’re talking about,” Mosseri says.
I like Meta’s implementation here, even the single-tag limit, as it seems like a smart way to prevent annoying hashtag spam.
That said, we’ll have to wait and see if users actually adopt the tags so that they can become a useful way to find conversations about a topic.
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So the Tumblr tags will finally reach their true form.
I've never really used Tumblr but it does sound like a cool fix, hope other Fediverse platform may consider it in the future.
key@lemmy.keychat.org 11 months ago
Those aren’t hashtags, those aren’t even tags. That’s a freeform category system. What’s old is new again.