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vivi @aeonlamb10/31/2022, 4:49 AM

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cecile @haraiva10/31/2022, 3:03 AM

using cohost like its tumblr 2 and putting comments in tags like any polite yet unhinged person

cecile @haraiva10/31/2022, 3:15 AM

actually thinking about how "tags as comments" became part of the ecosystem of non-invasive/passive communication on tumblr is like... so dear to me... them officially introducing being able to see tags from all the reblogs for a given post (which used to only be available using browser extensions like xkit) is an acknowledgement of this form of communication, and both a blessing and a curse. it's interesting to think about.

i like the idea that there are comments that are only meant for the people who follow you and arent necessarily meant to be seen by Everyone and the official introduction of tag viewing by everyone for any post sort of violates that tacit agreement while also creating another form of meta-discussion lol... and i dont think any other social media/social media-like platform is doing this. talking in tags feels like a more quintessential tumblr thing than like, whatever surface level thing people think about when they think about tumblr.

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Nire Bryce @NireBryce10/31/2022, 5:22 AM

the only problem I've got with it is if people share with just tags and nothing else, it looks like the OP put those tags there

cecile @haraiva10/31/2022, 5:44 AM

i dont think it does?

Nire Bryce @NireBryce10/31/2022, 6:56 AM

example: https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/162722-empty

it looks (chrome, Android) to me like I'm sharing your post and your tags, because of where they are in the post layout

if it doesn't show that way for you then maybe it's an Android bug

cecile @haraiva10/31/2022, 7:22 AM

maybe its because ive used tumblr for 10000 years but i def read that as your tags and not mine because its your username with 🔄 at the top of the post!

candle @candle10/31/2022, 12:05 PM

as a tumblr non-user i also find this very confusing.. visually it looks to be as if everything in the white section is the original being reposted

also as an side the reposting ui doesn't actually give any indication that the original tags will be hidden, i didn't realise that was a thing

Nire Bryce @NireBryce10/31/2022, 6:55 PM

maybe it was just my default theme, but on tumblr the tags had visual+spatial separation from the OP and OP's tags remained, at least in 2016-18 when i came back.

it's a tiny thing, but it does at a glance look like it's OP's tags on their post being shared by me, because it's in the white of their post, not the beige of the, for lack of better words, "share container". I'll see if it looks the same on desktop in a sec

🍬@Bonbon10/31/2022, 5:36 AM

Part of the tumblr 2 features includes occasionally getting echos of other people's comments in tags devoid entirely of context as you type your own

Izvy Raspberry @Izvy10/31/2022, 5:47 AM

I love that part

🍬@Bonbon10/31/2022, 5:56 AM

Sameeeeeee
I hope that this feature will go largely unchanged over the years.
I await when we can start typing anything and a gargantuan list of contextless comments drop down as we speak into this expanse of whispers from other people who may have already written comments not unlike what you originally intended to write, and so onnnnn

tom @tmoll10/31/2022, 7:50 AM

nooo don't leave comments in tags it's only going to increase the databases' cardinality think of the poor data scientist who has to look at this /s

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🍬@Bonbon10/31/2022, 5:31 AM

I was 100% a lurker on tumblr.
It feels like an absolute indulgence to be able to actually participate in the meta-discussion of talking in tags rather than just seeing it.