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if you have one little tiny comment on a post you're sharing, you don't have to make it a whole-ass reply that sticks with the original when someone else shares it. you can just add a tag, the way they do on tumblr, and it will only show up for people who see your first share.
it's tiny and unobtrusive. less like a "quote tweet" and more like if you could add a little sticky note to a retweet
This one is going to need a gif explainer, because I can't seem to figure out how to simply add a tag from the UI :'(
When you hit the share button, under the option to add your post, you can just click on the “add tags” option there (it’s at the very bottom).
The downside to this is that all the tags you put in are replaced on the share, which is less-than-ideal if they’re an important part of the post.
But it’s probably worth the trade-off for making the site more legible overall.
This actually seems like a terrible misfeature just asking to be abused? The tags appear on the post exactly as if the OP had added them, and their tags are just gone? I can’t understand why it would be implemented this way, and I really don’t think its use should be encouraged until it’s fixed…
the tags that appear are those of the top-bar poster. you can see who it was last (re-)posted from in the 🔄 in the top bar, and you can navigate directly the OP via timestamp in the space underneath where it shows the OP's header. that's just how it is, and no it does not look the same as if the OP added the tags. you can't even see the OP's tags at all without navigating to the OP or seeing the original post in your timeline because you follow the original author.
I see now that this is true, but that's so much worse than I imagined! Tags are a part of a post, I always want to share them when I click share and I certainly want mine shared if anyone shares anything of mine! And having content added by the sharer integrated directly into the body of the shared post with no dividing UI of any kind is going to mislead people and is going to be taken advantage of, even if knowledgeable users can tell what's going on.
it seems to have worked fine on Tumblr since Time Immemorial
yeah if this is "misleading" it's because the user is making strong assumptions about what precisely tags do and exactly how they work that are carried over from... actually i'm not sure where these are carried over from. does anything work like this? based on everything i can find tumblr works the exact same way cohost does. are there even any other websites that have tags like this and wildly deviated from tumblr's model
As someone who pretty much only used Twitter as a Tumblr refugee after the Great Exodus of '18 and always resented how the birdsite worked, discovering that Cohost lets you do a lot of the things I loved about Tumblr without the "this hellsite feels like it's coded and run by monkeys with typewriters" vibe of Tumblr has been an absolute joy, though it means I need to get back in the habit of tagging my reblogs rechosts after all these years (which is a small price to pay, I think, for all the other cool things about this site)
