Regular (on blogs) tagging is, I tag my post "Captain Marvel," and you can search my blog for that tag, and see all the entries with it. But that only works for my blog. Global tagging is when you look for every single post on Tumblr tagged "Captain Marvel," which, absolutely unsurprisingly, led to huge wankstorms. Basically like hashtags on Twitter (also a terrible fucking idea, also highly prone to both abuse and manipulating by corporations).
I've honestly seen people confused and maybe even somewhat upset going "But how do I indicate I like something and help circulate it without reblogging?" and I'm just like....LINKS! LINKS ARE THE VERTEBRAE OF THE INTERNET. The whole early internet was like basically linkspam! I was there for some of it! FFS, Google's original wildly successful PageRank algorithm, before it got messed with, was based on how often people linked to a site! WTF.
I dunno. It appears, not to go totally In the beginning was the command line, a lot of people are accessing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and similar sites via walled garden type apps on their ipads or iphones, and not realizing how censored and curated the whole experience is. To support something, you either upvote it or basically copy it, with very little additional commentary. Altho people do seem to use Twitter to pass on links, but they more often just retweet stuff. Linking has been replaced by "share buttons." A corporate invention.
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I've honestly seen people confused and maybe even somewhat upset going "But how do I indicate I like something and help circulate it without reblogging?" and I'm just like....LINKS! LINKS ARE THE VERTEBRAE OF THE INTERNET. The whole early internet was like basically linkspam! I was there for some of it! FFS, Google's original wildly successful PageRank algorithm, before it got messed with, was based on how often people linked to a site! WTF.
I dunno. It appears, not to go totally In the beginning was the command line, a lot of people are accessing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and similar sites via walled garden type apps on their ipads or iphones, and not realizing how censored and curated the whole experience is. To support something, you either upvote it or basically copy it, with very little additional commentary. Altho people do seem to use Twitter to pass on links, but they more often just retweet stuff. Linking has been replaced by "share buttons." A corporate invention.
//is older than BALLS, as they say