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Hashtags
As annoying as they can be, some sort of implementation of hashtags can be useful. For example, if I'm attempting to find a study on o/STEM on puberty blockers, this can act as another way to pull up related posts assuming the OP tagged it as such.
Tumblr also ran with a really creative use of the hashtag system when developers observed individuals talking in the hashtags to each other as a means of adding more quiet thoughts and commentary without wanting to detract from the original post. I'm not suggesting this to be implemented here (it makes less sense here for that imo), but I am raising this as just a creative example of a hashtag system being used beyond the means of just filtering content and adding to user communication. More features that add to communication and filtering in small ways allows for a culture to be created out of such features in surprising ways, in which a greater system can then be built and shape platforms uniquely.
It's also, and this is just a thought, something that might be useful to gage user interest in a topic if there was a way to track how often users assigned a specific hashtag to something (1.2k #asphalt), which may be visible to just you as admins or visible to users as a whole. It can be a feature within circles (i.e., searching "#possum" in o/whatever only pulls up posts with this tag from o/whatever), or it can be used as a general site tool (#possum would pull up whatever is tagged as #possum across the site). The search bar does a lot of this already, but I'm just voicing ideas.
Hashtags might be a more appropriate suggestion for later rather than sooner to prioritize other things and allow the site to evolve, or they might not be relevant to how this platform is designed, but I wanted to leave that idea here nonetheless.
Edit: Perhaps hash tags are sort of similar to flairs? So maybe the flair feature can be more refined, or replaced, or whatever.
So it’s all about your hair colour and labels? And I was always told uniforms were a sign of an uncritical, overly-compliant mind…
Oppression tourism really is in fashion right now, isn’t it? You don’t even need to do that icky sex stuff with anyone, just claim you’re asexual and have no gender, magically you’re the most picked-on minority that needs a whole month of constant applause from those around you to even function.
These idiots wouldn’t know real rebelliousness if it slapped them with a plaice.
you know who's asexual, children. I've often thought about that I know they want to claim everything but I don't think its the disinterested adults who want to mind their own business they are angling for with that. its a step on their unicorn journey of authentic self discovery.
And yet, they get strangely angry when LGBs try to do anything without them. Like, dating, for example.
Stupes, your (hopefully) favourite pansexual non-binary genderfluid, they/them
That's a very long-winded way to say "bisexual man".
With all the love-bombing prowess of a rapist cult leader.
This shit just reminds me of Christians praying and proselytizing in public so that the other kool aid drinkers see how righteous they are.
this guy is a youtuber with over a million subscribers, he makes music videos based on games.
you can see the post and replies here they are as insufferable as expected
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxrtS0RraIsDseseoSqzs71tiEofC2Rkxt
And of course this is the pinned comment in his post:
If any of those facts about me surprise people, as they often do when I post for pride month, hello! I'm queer and have been openly so for a long time, it's in my bios, on my socials, heck I have said so openly in my songs/videos multiple times, both indirectly and directly.
WTF does he even mean by "queer"? He just looks like a generic beard bro. And why does he need to insert his sexuality and gender politics into parody songs about video games?
If any of those facts about me are a problem to people, as they often are when I post for pride month, I am not looking for discussion or debate and will not be engaging in them, you can just leave. <3
What a great way to build an audience! Shove your politics into your goofy videos about games, and then tell the audience to leave if they don't want to listen to some White neckbeard LARP as an oppressed queer. And then, when your views/revenue dries up, call the people who stopped supporting you bigots. 🙄
I saw this on my youtube feed and then i unsubscribed immediately
me too, I thought he might be one of them I noticed him wearing nail varnish in a vid but I wasn't 100% now he's off my subscribe list along with Not Just Bikes
I really like tbat one song he did. Such a shame hes a gender gremlin believer
I actually loved his deltarune song. But he started doing this navel gazing pronoun shit and lost all interest in his newer work
It really is a shame when good artists get sucked into politics and it taints their work
I've unsubscribed but I haven't listened to his stuff since the outer worlds or no mans sky song can't remember I started going thru his back catalogue and found him to be more miss then hit and lost interest before I got to the present stuff.
thats what I do on youtube if I come across a channel Iike I go on their page and slowly start watching everything from the start, until I'm upto date or lost interest in them.
You can't just call yourself a wordsmith, ffs.
Not all smiths are good at it - carrying the metaphor, this dude's "smithing" is probably the equivalent of hammering two random pieces of metal together at an awkward angle.