Threads has hashtags now (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by clgoh@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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"Tags work a little differently than hashtags do on platforms like Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). When composing a Threads post, you start a tag by tapping the # symbol and then typing out your topic. But instead of being limited to just one word, you can type out a whole phrase (with spaces!) and add special characters, according to Mosseri. However, you can only make one tag per post."

I wonder how the tags will work if they federate with ActivityPub.

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[-] Chozo@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Threads is planning to federate, so it adopting more Fediverse-compatible features is relevant.

[-] johntash@eviltoast.org 2 points 11 months ago

But this doesn't look like it will be compatible with current ActivityPub, right?

[-] Chozo@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I don't see why not. Mastodon could just translate multi-word hashtags into underscored hashtags. There's already some unsupported features from forks like Firefish that get translated, like emote-reactions register on Mastodon as favorites, etc.

[-] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

ActivityPub can support tags with spaces, even though no fediverse platform allows you to write tags like that. The name of the tag can be pretty much whatever you want, as long as it has a valid URL.