Right now, only Tumblr and Youtube allow you to create separate profiles with a single account.
If I follow this guy who posts his comics in his account, unless he's exceptionally good at social media (they aren't), he'll use the same account to blog, and 9/10 of his posts will be blog posts.
I was trying to build a list of photographers and I had to repeatedly use the "Media" tab to figure out if a guy who says he's a photographer in his bio actually posts any photos on his profile or it's all just hot takes. Why can't I have a "Media" tab for "Photos I took myself"?
Over a decade ago DeviantArt had folders. Most of the posts I see don't even have hashtags.
I think if you let users define something like "my hashtags" where you could quickly find all their posts by a hashtag, and also let users follow only posts of a user that contains a hashtag, you would make hashtags actually relevant in a platform that lets you do full text search.
To explain better: the photographer would set "#photography" in their "My Hashtags" settings, for example, and this would show on the top of their profile so visitors could quickly find their photos. This would incentivize the use of hashtags (even generic ones) that is noticeable for less savvy users. So the photographer would have a reason to use #photography in their posts because now it has an obvious effect: it lets visitors see their portfolio. You may see someone that has these "My Hashtags" in their profile and think "wait, how do I add something like this to my profile?" and boom, now everyone discovers the feature and everyone uses them, and everyone is happy. Novel feature achieved. Bluesky becomes better than Twitter overnight.
Right now, only Tumblr and Youtube allow you to create separate profiles with a single account.
If I follow this guy who posts his comics in his account, unless he's exceptionally good at social media (they aren't), he'll use the same account to blog, and 9/10 of his posts will be blog posts.
I was trying to build a list of photographers and I had to repeatedly use the "Media" tab to figure out if a guy who says he's a photographer in his bio actually posts any photos on his profile or it's all just hot takes. Why can't I have a "Media" tab for "Photos I took myself"?
Over a decade ago DeviantArt had folders. Most of the posts I see don't even have hashtags.
I think if you let users define something like "my hashtags" where you could quickly find all their posts by a hashtag, and also let users follow only posts of a user that contains a hashtag, you would make hashtags actually relevant in a platform that lets you do full text search.
To explain better: the photographer would set "#photography" in their "My Hashtags" settings, for example, and this would show on the top of their profile so visitors could quickly find their photos. This would incentivize the use of hashtags (even generic ones) that is noticeable for less savvy users. So the photographer would have a reason to use #photography in their posts because now it has an obvious effect: it lets visitors see their portfolio. You may see someone that has these "My Hashtags" in their profile and think "wait, how do I add something like this to my profile?" and boom, now everyone discovers the feature and everyone uses them, and everyone is happy. Novel feature achieved. Bluesky becomes better than Twitter overnight.