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What’s the difference in #kbin </tag/kbin> between #tags </tag/tags> & #hashtags </tag/hashtags>? In the microblog tab, we can only add hashtags, which is simple enough. But when starting “threads” (fedia.io)

submitted 2 years ago by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/fedia@fedia.io

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What’s the difference in #kbin between #tags & #hashtags? In the microblog tab, we can only add hashtags, which is simple enough. But when starting “threads” both options are there. There’s a field for tags & we still have the option of adding hashtags. Are they both equally searchable? If yes, should we search with or without the hash (“#”)? Why don’t the tags show up after posting?

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[–] chris@fedia.io 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The tags field will add hashtags, but they only show up from Mastodon. I assume they are still searchable.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@chris sounds sensible. So the temptation is to go nuts adding all tags relevant to the field since they are concealed & only used for searching anyway. But then it must make Mastodon posts look junky.

BTW, I noticed tags can have spaces which then must somehow be represented on the Mastodon side. Camel case would be wise, but then on the #kbin side I guess there’d be uncertainty whether searches reach the spaced version & concatenated version.

[–] chris@fedia.io 1 points 2 years ago

I've not tried putting spaces in, might be an interesting experiment.