they're less heavy-handed than creating a whole separate page, more
flexible than tags, and cover a whole range of use cases. I call them
topics, and I've longed for them since before cohost
existed!
you would see something like this on my profile, in the same sidebar as
pinned tags:
meanwhile, on your timeline...
ash
@astral
»
computers 💻︎
hey I'm on my computer bullshit again! beep boop 1000101011110011 or
something. if you don't understand or care about this, you can uncheck
the computers 💻︎ topic to
unfollow just those posts.
ash
@astral
»
music 🎜
woah I just released some aweosme new music!!! you can tell because it
says music 🎜 right there in
the post header. if you only want to hear about new music from
me, you could uncheck everything except for this topic.
ash
@astral
»
spicy aminals 🐾︎
woooof, this image is spicy!!! followers aren't subscribed to this topic
by default, but they can opt into it as easily as checking a checkbox on
my profile.
ash
@astral
»
personal 😿︎
🔒︎
if you're reading this, you were cool enough for me to accept your
request to follow my personal topic! you gotta click a button to
request, but once you're in, you can just uncheck the box to dip out.
ash
@astral
I didn't bother assigning a topic to this post. to be honest, I'd
probably leave a solid 80% of my posts as default, but that just makes
my topic posts more ~special~