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Tagging users with multiple accounts (piefed.social)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sirxdaemon@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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On the Connect app, there's an option that users can enable to make user notes global. This applies a user tag to all accounts with the same username across instances. Any accounts that get a copy of the tag has an added * to denote that it wasn't originally tagged; as a reminder since some people may simply have the same username on different instances.

I prefer to tag accounts over blocking because I think it's beneficial to upvote pushback or correction replies, which you wouldn't see by blocking. But some people have way too many alts and it's rather tedious to tag each one. Granted, I also have many accounts, but that's mainly for testing purposes.

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[–] sirxdaemon@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The setting is not enabled by default. Also, the * hopefully reminds people that they didn't tag that specific account and that the same username on a different instance may represent two different people.

EDIT: Perhaps I should clarify that like user notes on Piefed, the ones in Connect are account specific. So different people don't see one another's tags. Though it's more app-specific in that your tags will be global, if you enable the option, across accounts on the app. So if I tag on Lemmy, I will see that tag if I'm on my Piefed account.