Fellow Lemmy users,

The Lemmy development team is considering adding a new tag system that would allow us to tag posts with keywords. This could make it easier to search for and find content on Lemmy.

Before implementing this, the team would like our feedback as users. Specifically:

  • Do you think having post tags would be helpful on Lemmy? Why or why not?

  • How should tags be displayed and integrated into Lemmy?

Please share your thoughts on whether you’d find a tag system useful, and if so, how you’d want it implemented. The dev team reads the feedback and will use it to decide how to proceed.

To give your input, you can comment or vote here or on the GitHub issue[1]. You can vote whether or not you want the feature, and the different implementations, so we can see which is the most popular.

Thanks for helping shape Lemmy! This is our community, so please speak up.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

  1. GitHub — Post tags ↩︎

  • PropaGandalf
    18•10 months ago

    Great as I don’t like Github and dont have an acxount there I’ll try to make suggestions here. I’ll refer to this comment for further clarification.

    • As already discussed in the github issue tags should imo be the lemmy implementation of hashtags as they can be seen on mastodon. ActivityPub already handles them well and on the lemmy side it’s just a matter of redesigning in order to display them as more reddit like tags. We have the moderator tags which look pretty nice already. Also important tags like the Mod or NSFW tags could be displayed in a red or orange color which signalizes the importance of the tag.

    • My second suggestions was also already pointed out but as on reddit communities should be able to predesign some tags that the users will be able to select (just like on reddit). Additionally users should be able to add maybe up to four other tags to their post the number would have to be discussed with the community to prevent tag spamming.

      Adding user based tags should not be a big problem for moderation as on mastodon anyone can give themslves any hashtag they wan’t which seems to work well. Additionally (community and even instance) moderators would have the ability to search for inappropriate tags in bulk which they can then further analyze and remove if it contains inappropriate language.

      These user based tags could be displayed in a small field right below the post body wheras the important tags as well as the community picked tags would be displayed above the post just like on reddit. In a further step an option could be implemented to hide the user given tags entirely or just collapse this field.

    • @pe1uca
      2•10 months ago

      hashtags as they can be seen on mastodon.

      I haven’t seen the federation content exchanged, in the UI I’ve only seen hashtags from mastodon as links inside the content of the post.
      For the implementation in lemmy I’d guess they need to be included in the metedata (as in one of the examples in the rfc), does mastodon already does this so lemmy can properly display them in a separate section in the ui?
      Also, how would mastodon handle not having the hashtag in the content but only in the metadata?

      • PropaGandalf
        1•10 months ago

        I cant find it anymore but I thought that this was actually part of ActivityPub. Also I’ve seen a comment exactly pointing this out in the issue thread.

    • Franzia
      2•10 months ago

      I have a big problem with Mastodon tags being I need to go to another website to search them and figure out which ones are actually in use.

      The community curation of tags idea would be a very low-tech and simple solution to this!