I think the idea of using nsfw, cw, and spoiler tags for labelling objectionable content should be considered. This idea originated from Tildes, where hierarchical tags are used to add specifics. I no longer think hierarchical tags are a good idea, however, as they could potentially break compatibility with services that use tags differently.

Originally posted by kolgza in #317

We already have nsfw for posts and communities, and spoiler tags for comments.

Originally posted by dessalines in #317

Other activitypub platforms already support hashtags, so it would make sense to implement an (optional) tagging feature that is compatible with eg Mastodon hashtags. But that is still far in the future.

Originally posted by Nutomic in #317

There’s a lot of things I disagree with about the unmoderated tag vs moderated community model, but if I were to boil it down to one thing, its ownership. In the tag model, no one has any control over any of the content in those tags, and if there’s any work being done to clean up content in there, all that work is put on the admins. No one except the admins control tags.

Whereas with a community, anyone can start one, invite people to it, and have full moderation abilities to keep things the way they want. It gives a sense of ownership, a vested stake in its success, and gives the community creators / moderators the power to keep the sub how they want it.

Obvi a huge part of reddits popularity (ignoring the first mover thing) is that people can, and still do, make and grow communities. If anything it got to critical mass because of that killer feature.

Originally posted by dessalines in #317

What I meant was that if, in the future, you were to allow users to freely add tags to their posts, it might be a good idea to implement a designated nsfw tag to mark posts as nsfw, instead of the way nsfw posts are handled currently.

This idea hinges on post tags being implemented in the first place.

Originally posted by kolgza in #317

Nothing new, but anyone is free to make a PR adding this, we’re busy with other things.

Originally posted by dessalines in #317

They might make sense for a micro-blogging system that never thought beforehand about how to group topics and help you find content, but they don’t make sense for a link-aggregator that already groups topics into communities. Lemmy’s search bar probably already works as well as hashtags do for finding content.

Oh you know Diaspora, Friendica or Hubzilla? These are all macro-blogging platforms where hashtags are part of the basic concept. Used correctly, hashtags can be very helpful in finding interesting content.

Originally posted by Ravenbird in #317

On another topic, it would be awesome having Mastodon-style featured tags, but for communities.

(I’m probably getting ahead of myself.)

Originally posted by kolgza in #317

Tags are great for finding relevant content. See how it’s done in one of the reddit clone https://pikabu.ru/tag

Originally posted by loid345 in #317

Yes, I did

Originally posted by remram44 in #317

Similar to https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1456#issuecomment-1399717425, I think it would be good if someone could write a “Lemmy Enhancement Proposal” to get a full picture how this could work.

Originally posted by Nutomic in #317

Could you expand on the mess of maintaining the system? Since I have no experience in managing a community it’s possible that I’m missing something very obvious =)

Also it could be an optional mess: it should be an opt-in feature for each community.

And yes, I see your point on search; I still feel a strong point about post filtering since it’s a feature I use daily on reddit to exclude some content on a subreddit level.

Originally posted by MatteoGgl in #317

I’m not sure about tags, mainly because of the annoying and complicated mess of community owners having to maintain systems of them.

Also, the main usefulness of tags, is being able to list / filter on them, which already works with searching. Lets say a music community requires a [Genre] tag, so if you wanted to list all the rock posts, you could just this: https://dev.lemmy.ml/search/q/[rock]/type/all/sort/topall/page/1.

Originally posted by dessalines in #317

Moderation need not be a task left only to admins; Slashdot has a meritocratic system of enlisting moderators. Another option could be elected moderators. Users can also be enlisted in a limited sense to perform some roles.

I get that Reddit gained popularity from making use of an entrepreneurial settler-colonist mindset in regard to community development, but it needn’t be the only means of cultivating a community.

Tildes.net seems to take the approach of having communities each with their own set of tags. Seems like that’s what you’re going for, but I feel that having federation is redundant.

Originally posted by NOTtheMessiah in #317

I would prefer the option to toggle it off, just like downvotes.

Originally posted by ColdHotman in #317