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what users do you recognize a lot and why
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this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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I'm not very good at remembering peoples inside-joke Lemmy handles that mean nothing to me. I liberally use user tags to keep track of people, most often people I want to warn future-self away from engaging with so I don't waste my time. Racists, bigots, trolls, sea lions, etc.
how do you tag people?
Probably one of the apps. I use the web browser version because I have been classically conditioned to loathe installing apps on my phone.
i tried it and didn't find it any more useful than browsing lemmy with firefox and i keep asking why others use it in case i'm missing something, but no one ever responds to my question.
It's a feature of the Voyager app and from what I can gather, at least some other apps too.
You have to turn the feature on in settings, then just click into the user profile right next to where one would block a person, there's an option to apply a user tag.
can you share these tags with other people?
No, they're for you as the user only.
I mostly use them to 1) track interesting people like there's a user on here who's a Jellyfin Roku app developer. I don't remember their username, but pay attention to their comments when I see the user tag I set for them 2) people who are bad faith trolls whose usernames I won't remember but don't want to get sucked into investing time answering their questions when they'll just be racist asshats in response.
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