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?
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).
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 or labeling people in apps.
I use a browser, not an app, to view lemmy
I dont. In fact I didn‘t know it was possible and just learned about it through your post.
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 🙂.
That’s a good idea to use emoji. I tag with a short few words describing the thing they commented that gave me a chuckle or frown.
One thing I’m starting to find though is that the yellow emojis are maybe looking a little too much like Reddit style awards at first glance, or at least making me think of them. Might look for purple alternatives or something else that looks a bit more toned down along with a dark theme.
I like your idea. Seems like a good way to be reminded of something random and get a laugh while you’re scrolling.
Yeah I could see that I suppose, be great to keep it as far from Reddit as possible. It’s worked okay so far for me, nice to personalise users a bit, Zero22xx “emoji tagger” 😁
I didn’t know you could. How do you tag someone?
No, I use the web version, and wouldn’t benefit from tagging anyways. Lemmy is small enough anyways.
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 don’t mind any variation or shortage of my username.
I’ve got one guy tagged as “idiot”, I happen to see them from time to time, they never disappoint
the only tag i remember putting on was one that said “doesn’t consider children to be family” which was very funny to me
why is it not surprising that the .worlder’s use them?
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’ve only just learned about that feature. I came from reddit so anything that is even remotely different bewilders and confuses me. I will start to use it though it seems hella useful
I have a couple people tagged, mostly in negative ways since they have to make a really bad impression first.
How do you tag in lemmy? I use Jerboa.
I have two so far, a Scholar and a Futurama expert
