cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/20469954
If so, why and what do you tag them? What fits your bill as to tag and remember someone and to just leave it be?
Oh, bonus question, if you tag people, what am I tagged as? 🥺
No, I don’t even know what that is.
How do you tag in lemmy? I use Jerboa.
the only tag i remember putting on was one that said “doesn’t consider children to be family” which was very funny to me
I have two so far, a Scholar and a Futurama expert
i tag notable people, good and bad.
I didn’t know you could. How do you tag someone?
Yes. I tag people that prove to be wastes of time: arguing in bad faith, lying, uninterested in actually taking any advice and are only here to whine, proud bigots.
I tag them because they often get good responses from the community that I want to see. I just don’t want to engage with the tagged person directly, so tag them to signal to myself to not waste effort.
No tagged people in this thread.
Some examples of tags I have applied to other users,“AI Slop Slinger”, “Fetish hunter”, “Doesn’t reply”, “the world is white straight male by default”, and “uses Lemmy as websearch, poorly”.
For example, AI slop slinger asked a question that prompted a lot of really excellent, in-depth responses with citations that I could run down and learn even more from. But Slinger just posted semi-regurgitated text back in comments. Some assumed Slinger spoke a different language and tried to help them communicate, but no, Slinger was just a lazy asshat wasting people’s time. Maybe Slinger wasn’t even human.
I’ve got one guy tagged as “idiot”, I happen to see them from time to time, they never disappoint
No, I use the web version, and wouldn’t benefit from tagging anyways. Lemmy is small enough anyways.
I use a browser, not an app, to view lemmy
Yep. Tagging is an app-only feature. Would like to see that in the browser too, though.
I only tag people being dickheads, doesn’t happen often, I have like 3 people tagged
I have a couple people tagged, mostly in negative ways since they have to make a really bad impression first.
I do, only rarely.
Your tag would be @OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
This is what we are talking about, right? Tagging others?
But the other comments seem to be talking about some kind of labelling. Did Lemmy add a new feature that I’m unaware of?
Found the answer in the parent thread, thank you @Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club:
That’s a mention, not a tag. A tag is a private description you save about a user. Only apps have this fearure.
It’s a little weird that they took a well established term (in social media context: tag, id by which to mention a user, also known as ‘tagging’) and gave it a wholly different meaning (tag: label).
Some apps let you put a tag on someone’s name so anytime you see them, you also see the tag next to their name.
No, not any I know of. Tagging is also commonly called mentioning here.
edit: Oh, I think I know what they mean. It’s the labels or badges you can put on people, I think. But that is not a native Lemmy feature. Thunder and Summit have them, for example.
OP should make clear whether they mean mentioning or labeling people in apps.
I dont. In fact I didn‘t know it was possible and just learned about it through your post.
Tagging is an app-only feature. Would like to see that in the browser too, though.
No. I do remember some usernames if they frequently take stances but will never judge them for a single comment. The userbase is small enough to know nearly everyone.
hello, do you prefer being called Geneva?
I don’t mind any variation or shortage of my username.
