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
£ 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
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.
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
