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All sounds reasonable to me. It disgusts me that the culture I grew up in was so insidious as to produce trump. Still hard to fathom, even knowing about the cultural problems we have...
Some of the mobile apps have the tagging feature. I use boost on Android which also has it. You basically just long press a username and select "tag user".
Thanks, I use the "normal" browser interface. Never used an app for lemmy, maybe I should try it?
I would recommend a mobile app, yes. Just feels a little more solid and to me the notifications, video play and a few other features feel smoother on a native app. Boost is great but I wouldn't necessarily recommend the free version because it has ads. No ads in the $5 version which I found worth it because it's a great app.
There are a lot of other choices (https://join-lemmy.org/apps/) but I definitely tried a lot and liked Boost and Connect the best. Sync is okay and I've heard good things about Voyager. Most of the apps have a user tagging feature and I'm certain the ones I've mentioned here do. Only caveat is in Connect it's called "Notes" instead of tags, but it's the same idea. Hope this helps!
Thanks. 👍