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Do you tag people in Lemmy? (discuss.online)

submitted 5 months ago by OmegaLemmy@discuss.online to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/20469954

If so, why and what do you tag them? What fits your bill as to tag and remember someone and to just leave it be?

Oh, bonus question, if you tag people, what am I tagged as? 🥺

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[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 months ago

Found the answer in the parent thread, thank you @Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club:

That’s a mention, not a tag. A tag is a private description you save about a user. Only apps have this fearure.

It's a little weird that they took a well established term (in social media context: tag, id by which to mention a user, also known as 'tagging') and gave it a wholly different meaning (tag: label).