"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.

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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

instead of being limited to just one word, you can type out a whole phrase

That's...not how tags work...

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that how tumblr has been doing tags for years?

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

#Yep finally they can all have their multi paragraphs long tags and have them working as they want them to work

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i hate how you can only have one tag in threads though 😞

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah that sucks.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No need to shout!

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Where was the shouting?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh that's weird, my client is showing your hash-prefixed comment as a markdown heading (which I thought Lemmy was supposed to do), but when I look at it in the web ui it's just normal text with a literal hash symbol

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

That's how it looks on my end too, I wanted it to look like the tumbler tags. I wasn't aware it was supposed to be a mark down, would have changed it if I knew, but Lemmy didn't really seem to know that either. Except for the one you uses.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't know, never been there

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago

Me neither, but you see plenty of screenshots. My point being that twitter/mastodon-style hash tags aren't the only way of doing tags. The thing Threads are suggesting that make it not a tag is the fact you can only have one!

[–] fujiwood@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

#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

Edit: JFC it's going to be so stupid.