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Flair? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by crowcore_explorer@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Hi all! I'm totally new to this online format and I'm just wondering... What's flair, precious? What is it, what does it do, why would I want to set it if I'm not in a workspace that requires at least five pieces of it? Can someone please explain flair in the context of this platform to me? Thanks!

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[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You can change/define a user's tag per community in the sidebar.

For example :

In this community, my user's tag is wiki editor

In !fediverse@piefed.social, it is warm typewritter

That's just your flair, right?

User tags are indeed a different system, and not something supported by PieFed itself, as far as I can tell. Apps like Voyager and Thunder (which both work with PieFed) have their own user tagging system.

While a flair is something that a user sets for themselves to be seen by everybody on PieFed, a user tag is something that a user sets for someone else and is only seen by the user who set it. It allows me to tag you as a "Helpful user". It only appears that way to me, and you appear that way no matter what community I see you in. I can tag an annoying user as a "Troll" and they won't know unless I tell them.

[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I hope i haven't mixed name with user tag, user flair 😅

But yeah that's good to know, thank. I never used this feature. :)