tags have multiple purposes here on the ol' cohost:

  • making posts globally searchable (major use of fandom tags for example)
  • additional commentary that's not visible via rehost in the tone of an aside
  • filtering content (eventually)
  • personal organization of one's own posts

the latter two are, to some degree, in conflict. this is particularly the case for things like jokes, goofs, or other chortlesources. I may want to be able to get a list of all my shitposts, but it kind of ruins the tone of the thing if I am in effect saying "#shitpost" to the audience after I finish whatever awful joke I've made. so I wish there were tags that only showed up for me.

because this is a kind of narrow use-case, I think it might make sense to have it work by some sort of "magic prefix" for which tags don't show up publicly or in search. I might write "#priv: shitpost" for example. this gives rise to the idea of other special tags, but that's left as an exercise for the reader

Edit: People seem to like this idea so I made it an official feature request


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in reply to @nex3's post:

another sort of namespace I'm using tags for, is indicating a series of posts, for liveblogging etc.—I'm using #cassie Gundam for all my Gundam watch stuff, so you can find just my posts about that—it might be nice to have a type of tags where when you click on them they're taking you to the user tag page rather than the global tag page? I don't know if this necessary makes sense as a separate feature or not, but I was just reminded of that here.

ideally you'd be able to right-click a tag and choose which tag page to go to, although hijacking right-click on the web is extremely difficult to do usably especially once mobile is in the picture so idk