why did # become a symbol for in-text tags anyway
why are in-text tags a thing in the first place
metadata and data should be distinct entities
i am Very Annoyed at the concept of #-tags in general
they should not exist
can we please get rid of them and use a functional tagging system that doesn't interfere with reading things
@packbat does dragon.style have the bookmarks feature yet?
@Felthry no - that might be a glitch-soc thing
does that include the option to add metadata to bookmarks?
@packbat Not that we're aware of, but if you bookmark relatively few things like we do it's not hard to re-find them
@Felthry ahh - unfortunately, judging by how I tumbl'd, I bookmark thousands of things...
@packbat The way we do it, the star is for saying "we read this" or "we appreciate this" or just generally "we acknowledge that this exists", and the bookmark is for saying "this is something we definitely want to be able to find later"
@Felthry I mean, same.
...it's just that there are thousands of posts I definitely want to be able to find later...
@Felthry I think it's a convenience factor. Folks wouldn't tag otherwise most likely.
@zetasyanthis There are *definitely* ways to make it convenient and not obnoxious fro the person trying to read it, though
even just let you put them in like normal #-tags but then strip off all the #s and populate a separate tag field
@Felthry I really wish I could do things Tumblr-style and have my-account-only metadata on my boosts for cataloguing purposes
I can find most of the reblogs I remember reblogging on Tumblr but I can't find boosts I remember boosting on my Mastodon at all, usually