they're less heavy-handed than creating a whole separate page, more flexible than tags, and cover a whole range of use cases. I call them topics, and I've longed for them since before cohost existed!
you would see something like this on my profile, in the same sidebar as pinned tags:
TOPICS
- default
- computers 💻︎
- music 🎜
- spicy aminals 🐾︎ opt-in 🚪︎
- personal 😿︎ request 🔒︎
meanwhile, on your timeline...
ash @astral » computers 💻︎
hey I'm on my computer bullshit again! beep boop 1000101011110011 or something. if you don't understand or care about this, you can uncheck the computers 💻︎ topic to unfollow just those posts.
ash @astral » music 🎜
woah I just released some aweosme new music!!! you can tell because it says music 🎜 right there in the post header. if you only want to hear about new music from me, you could uncheck everything except for this topic.
ash @astral » spicy aminals 🐾︎
woooof, this image is spicy!!! followers aren't subscribed to this topic by default, but they can opt into it as easily as checking a checkbox on my profile.
ash @astral » personal 😿︎ 🔒︎
if you're reading this, you were cool enough for me to accept your request to follow my personal topic! you gotta click a button to request, but once you're in, you can just uncheck the box to dip out.
ash @astral
I didn't bother assigning a topic to this post. to be honest, I'd probably leave a solid 80% of my posts as default, but that just makes my topic posts more ~special~
