"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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[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Unless there's bigger news you've not mentioned, this has nothing to do with the fediverse.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Threads is planning to federate, so it adopting more Fediverse-compatible features is relevant.

[–] johntash@eviltoast.org 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

But this doesn't look like it will be compatible with current ActivityPub, right?

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I don't see why not. Mastodon could just translate multi-word hashtags into underscored hashtags. There's already some unsupported features from forks like Firefish that get translated, like emote-reactions register on Mastodon as favorites, etc.

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