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We all do! It isn’t easy! I think there are levels of engagement that work for different posts: 1. Hit that “heart” icon. 2. Hit the “share” icon. 3. Add a comment on the post. 4. Use the “quote” option to repost on your feed with an added comment. (I include the photographer’s name, too.)

3/x … and don’t plan to return to, given my feelings about Meta. As for hashtags, they do serve a useful purpose for people who are looking for specific topics. For example, it would be very hard to efficient find, say, landscape photographs or fellow photographers without them. I think that the…

This annoys me too about @bsky.app -- I understand limitations have their benefits, but I often have to repeatedly prune what I write (incl. this post via occasional awkward abbreviations I'd never otherwise use). Not sure how to ideally solve it, but +50% to the limit would be nice in the meantime.

Yeah, the character limit is honestly a real barrier for my engagement on bsky. Utterly arbitrary, it just puts speed bumps into the process of writing a serious thought or sharing an intelligent quote.

What would actually be great is if the tags were, as you suggested, in a separate field that doesn’t count against the character limit AND they were not shown in posts. Seems like that would satisfy both ”sides” — No visible tags bothering those who don’t like them, yet still available for search.

I’m going to continue the discussion, and hope that we can keep it respectful. I don’t think it is an either/or proposition. I’m a strong proponent of interacting (and reposting good work from others), but I’ve found a lot of good stuff by searching and following tags, too.

I have a slight disagreement, but I've primarily used Bsky to find things instead of to be found. For initially finding niches, I think the search benefits from tags which is why I wish they were optional to add but hidden from browsing by default. When I started using Bsky I searched for... [1/3]