Yes, please.
Also group-agnostic filtering would be useful. Lemmy groups are sparsely filled and it would make more sense to "subscribe to a tag" than a group.
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Same. I've really liked this feature in Mastadon.
A flair-like implementation would be nice for certain communities. From past experience on reddit, I can see how it could be beneficial to filter a community's posts through tags, say, to check latest announcements or new support questions. I'd personally prefer community-specific tags as opposed to global post tags ~~(which is what I inferred from this post's content, I haven't read the RFC yet though)~~ edit: the RFC talks about both instance-based tags and community-based tags, which is even better
One of the use cases on Reddit is to tag titles that are misleading/wrong/changed, which doesn't matter as much here where titles can be edited.
I definitely agree about community specific tags. Filtering by, for example, community announcements, news, or discussion posts can be pretty helpful on bigger communities. We could self-enforce that for searchability with [terms in brackets], but a drop-down to select tags would be a lot smoother.
A string like [email protected] can mean different things in lemmy.
If prepended with an exclamation it's a community, and with an "at" is a user.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/federation_getting_started.html
What would be the symbol for the tags? A hash?
My only thoughts are about abuse, have the devs thought about how to limit abuse of a tagging system?
My suggestions were limit number to 5 user applicable tags, communities having a whitelist of tags, and an instance's slur filter applying to tags.
Tumblr tags come to mind
Yes. Good idea.
I would like to have user-based tags, in addition to community, instance, and post-level. It's nice to be able to rag the trolls or bad-faith actors.
I don't know a thing about developing a platform but tags sound great. Like the other commenter said, similar to Reddit flairs could work. I think both categories of tags, community and instance, would be useful.
I think that would make a lot of sense considering the different communities about similar topic on different instances, can't replace a proper search engine but I get that that would be really expensive to host (you would have to basically index Lemmy) and that's a nice option for official discoverability support. The biggest issue in that regard will continue be the architecture of current search engines tho, Fediverse applications can't rank properly in a domain based system and a Reddit alternative MUST rank in search engines to be viable!