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   æon :icosahedron: (aeonofdiscord@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:38:28 JST æon :icosahedron:

   • Gadfly (-booq-)

   @gaditb yeah from the author's point of view this is great, but from a reader's perspective it kind of dilutes their value as metadata. otoh nobody likes writing metadata so making it fun is probably a good idea

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     æon :icosahedron: (aeonofdiscord@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:38:26 JST æon :icosahedron:

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     • Gadfly (-booq-)

     @gaditb yeah it's not like a serious problem or anything, just kind of an interesting consideration. like the tumblr design is definitely better imo; if you hypothetically wanted to design a different website that focused more on using tag-based indexing for discovery you might consider a different approach that limited expressiveness, but obviously you wouldn't be pitching that to the kind of users who enjoy tumblr

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     Gadfly (-booq-) (gaditb@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:38:27 JST Gadfly (-booq-)

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     @aeonofdiscord It's not something you can design against. People will eventually use every possible avenue they can communicate anything in, for expression.

     Remember how when the Bot account tag was added on Mastodon, people IMMEDIATELY began using it to express themself?
     And location tags on Twitter are the vast majority of the time useless for knowing where someone is, but they'll sure tell you another thing about what they believe.
     Relationship markers on Facebook likewise got used for just "haha, we're friends joking with each-other"!

     And it's not a bug from the (intended) reader's point of view, either. It's communicative to them.

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