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 ↩︎

  • Franzia
    1•10 months ago

    Yes because I like Tumblr more than Reddit. I like searchability, and while it can lead to Brigading, is often better for communities with useful information (tech, hobbies, DIY). I think basically some communities should be allowed to turn off any functions that make content more searchable, if they feel they need it to prevent brigading.

    I’m really hoping Lemmy can become a little more personal… this threaded communities concept based almost entirely on Reddit does not facilitate 1 on 1 discussion. At best, someone will add a very useful comment to a thread and if people see it then it will rise to the top and be directly under the post. I think maybe being able to star/pin a great comment (like youtube) would be best, but again tumblr deals with this using Reblogs. Just… add someone elses’s comment to the post and share it with those comments added.