Honestly the thing I dislike most about social media is how difficult it is to find that one incredibly specific thing that you lost. Like, let's say you remember a post that mentioned a specific character, location, and random fun fact. If you try and search those things together on any social media site, you're not going to get any results, even though the post containing all three of them is right there on the site!
On ao3, you can kind of get that to work, since you can search for specific combinations of tags (assuming that the work author tagged those things), but other social media sites don't let you search tags in specific combinations. This also can lead to some issues -- let's say you have a favorite character in a fandom, but they're not a fandom favorite. If you go in that character's tag, here's what you're going to find:
1. Posts about the fandom favorite that are tagged with every character tag (you could technically eliminate these by blocking the tag for the fandom favorite, but you usually enjoy posts about this character -- just not, you know, when you're looking for posts about a different character)
2. Pretty pictures, gifsets, incorrect quotes, etc. -- all the stuff that's easy to make and pretty (or not-so-pretty, but you know what I mean) to look at
3. Character analysis, meta, fics, etc. -- the meaty content
If you're in a mood for only meaty content about this character... unless you know someone who's reblogged a lot of that sort of thing and has literally the best and most specific organizational system ever, good luck finding what you're looking for. You'll either be stuck in the character tag scrolling past stuff you don't want to see, or in some other fandom tag (such as meta) scrolling through stuff you don't want to see.
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On ao3, you can kind of get that to work, since you can search for specific combinations of tags (assuming that the work author tagged those things), but other social media sites don't let you search tags in specific combinations. This also can lead to some issues -- let's say you have a favorite character in a fandom, but they're not a fandom favorite. If you go in that character's tag, here's what you're going to find:
1. Posts about the fandom favorite that are tagged with every character tag (you could technically eliminate these by blocking the tag for the fandom favorite, but you usually enjoy posts about this character -- just not, you know, when you're looking for posts about a different character)
2. Pretty pictures, gifsets, incorrect quotes, etc. -- all the stuff that's easy to make and pretty (or not-so-pretty, but you know what I mean) to look at
3. Character analysis, meta, fics, etc. -- the meaty content
If you're in a mood for only meaty content about this character... unless you know someone who's reblogged a lot of that sort of thing and has literally the best and most specific organizational system ever, good luck finding what you're looking for. You'll either be stuck in the character tag scrolling past stuff you don't want to see, or in some other fandom tag (such as meta) scrolling through stuff you don't want to see.