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YSK adding tags will make your posts more discoverable on the wider Fediverse (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by asteroidrainfall@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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On KBin we have the ability to add tags to posts. These can either be directly added using the ~~“pound” sign~~ octothorpe, as in #KbinMeta. You can also add tags using the “Tags” field when creating an article, link, or photo. The second method will append the tags to the end of the post when the post is federated.

This is invaluable for your post to be seen on other platforms, especially those without any algorithms, such as Mastodon.

KBin magazines can also have tags associated with them. This will associate content from the Fediverse that uses those tags with the magazine. Also, very useful for smaller magazines.

If you want to view content related to a specific tag, you can visit <Kbin instance>/tag/<name of tag>, ie: https://kbin.social/tag/kbin

Pleas tag you posts!

Edit:
Fixed some controversial terms: octothorpe

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[–] stevecrox@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

£ is a symbol for currency (Great British Pound or "pound")
lb is a non SI symbol for weight (pound or 0.454kg)

# is a hash

Systems need ways to recognise tags, prefixing them with a symbol is helpful for computers. Using # as the prefix makes it a hashtag #technicallycorrect

[–] Falmarri@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tell us you're under 30

[–] stevecrox@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I wish, just British.

£ is The Pound to British people, so telling people to press pound for # when you mean hash would be deeply confusing.

It would be like deciding § is now the called the Euro and then telling countries that use € they are weird/young.

[–] LChitman@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Speak for yourself please, I wouldn't find it deeply confusing.

[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

now I'm wondering why us Americans decided to start calling # a pound sign, when the original name was octothorpe

time to get lost in Wikipedia

[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

here are some snippets:

It is believed that the symbol traces its origins to the symbol ℔ an abbreviation of the Roman term libra pondo, which translates as "pound weight"

A 1917 manual distinguishes between two uses of the sign: "number (written before a figure)" and "pounds (written after a figure)". The use of the phrase "pound sign" to refer to this symbol is found from 1932 in U.S. usage. The term hash sign is found in South African writings from the late 1960s and from other non-North-American sources in the 1970s.

[–] asteroidrainfall@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I had no idea that # was going to cause so much controversy. I will say that pound is much more efficient than octothorpe.

Please enter your birthday followed by the octothorpe.

It doesn’t have the same ring to it.

[–] mabd@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Woah, octothorpe is so much cooler.