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I only ever do it for obvious things that fit a clear category that anyone would post about, like dreams.

I tend to default to "shitchosting," but it seems like other folks default to "the cohost global feed."

I think this could go under "cohost meta", maybe?

fwiw it's not just you - I have definitely put tags on posts but I have no idea if I'm doing it right, or enough, or anything.

I have the same issue. I kinda wish cohost had booru style tag browsing, so you could just look at a list of all the tags and decide what to look at from there (I wish a lot of non-porn websites did that kind of thing tbh)

I figure I'm just going to use the first tag I think of for things. Either I thought of it because I know it's already a tag people use for that thing, or it will be a tag that people use for that thing if I make enough good posts with it.

I'm the same in that I'd rather "hop between people", and the idea that people want to keep track of tags, or trending pages, or so on, is just such a foreign concept to me. In my mind the kind of person that mindlessly consumes the ever-populating feed on Twitter etc. based on #inserttaghere is not in it for any substance.

Honestly I just tend to go more for self-consistency, I noticed some people are using 'oc: insert name here' to mark character posts so I adopted that

For me, I mostly care about tagging for post series, the rest are a loose idea of what the post is about

I do think I am the only person to tag #10-key-input so far

Maybe the discovery feature we need is not most active tags by what's being posted, but instead by what's being viewed. Would be a bit of a mix of what people are looking for (and actually finding) along with tags of posts that go viral by people's feeds.

i have never used a hashtag on the fediverse (or my brief time on twitter), i do not understand them at all (i want to be discoverable why?)

i should probably try to learn how to use the tag system here, but the concept still eludes me