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   Gadfly (-booq-) (gaditb@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:38:29 JST Gadfly (-booq-)

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   • æon :icosahedron:

   @aeonofdiscord Any user-editable fields displayed consistently to an audience eventually becomes at least somewhat Content, at least sometimes.

   (e.g. https://nox.im/posts/2021/0724/hosting-tor-hidden-services-with-vanity-onion-addresses/ )

   But making it clear it's specifically NOT the Primary Content -- making a specific separation -- allows it to also NOT be content, if the author doesn't want it.
   That's important, to give them that choice.

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     æon :icosahedron: (aeonofdiscord@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:38:30 JST æon :icosahedron:

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     tumblr sensibly moves its hashtags out of the flow entirely but the way they're displayed means that users end up writing additional commentary, little bits of concrete poetry, or even entire posts in the tags, because it's funny

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     æon :icosahedron: (aeonofdiscord@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:38:31 JST æon :icosahedron:

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     they don't #work as #content because they're distracting and wreck the conversational flow; they don't work as metadata because even if you pile them up at the end the reader is still expecting normal sentences with syntax, and instead they get word salad #wordsalad

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     æon :icosahedron: (aeonofdiscord@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:38:32 JST æon :icosahedron:

     hashtags are supposed to be content and metadata at the same time and that's why they're bad UX