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
This is where LLMs like GPT should be applied. Parse a post and recommend tags based on the content, allow the user to just select which ones to use. This is how we leverage these models.
No. The best way to target your audience is to pick your tags manually. If you ask an AI what is the best tag then it will answer you “Trump”, pick it and surely your post will be discovered.
The thing is if you train your AI to return the right tags, then it means that you ALREADY know the tags yourself. Therefore you can already do it yourself.
@PabloDiscobar Or, it could do both, AI can recommend you tags, but you can select or enter in a custom tag.
These can either be directly added using the “pound” sign, as in #KbinMeta
Or tag it with the hash sign, if you speak British English. Hence ‘hashtag’.
£ 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
Will the tags of the magazine automatically apply to every post within that magazine?
Btw, can we personalize what tags appear in the Microblog page of a magazine?
I’ve noticed that only posts tagged “Europe” show up there (because of the name of the magazine), what if I want other countries to show up too?
Also, is there a way to turn off notifications for the Microblog posts, but allow notifications for Threads?
Also also, do tags apply for threads in a magazine, or are those just useless for now? (I’m under the impression that they don’t work at all lol)
Btw, can we personalize what tags appear in the Microblog page of a magazine?
Yes, owner of the magazine should be able to do that.
In your magazine’s settings page, currently titled “Magazine Panel”, there’s a page called “Tags”. There, you can add any tags that you want associated with your magazine.
I have set up a few custom tags for my magazine, /m/bsg, if you want to see it in action.
Edit:
Some wrote up a nice guide for the moderator features on KBin:
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/67825/A-quick-guide-to-creating-and-moderating-magazines