Which tag(s) will he related to child like anime posts. There are dozens of community names for that crap. I assume I would have dozens of tags to block too?

I think it makes more sense to tag communities for this style of site rather than having users attach them to every single post.

That way, we would even have a simple method to “link” related communities, which I bet has been the #1 feedback request.

There should 100% be a pretty low cap on the number of tags you can apply. I don’t want to be seeing shit like some sketchy Craigslist post with 500 hashtags at the bottom so it’ll match as many searches as possible.

Don’t be Twitter.

I’d like the Reddit style flairs. On communities, mods could set up a bunch of flairs for people to choose from when making a new post. Also be able to assign a user flair.

I think this is useful for distinguishing e.g. questions from debates or memes.

Twitter-style (hash)tags, I understand why they exist but I don’t care for them. Everyone just puts all the tags into every post anyway. Communities on Lemmy serve mostly the same purpose anyway. Like, would technology posts on technology communities have technology tags? Silly.

I think there should be tags for communities and separately, tags for posts within a community.

But I am thinking of Reddit’s style of tags, where they are not used like Mastodon, they are just used to identify a general topic or classification of a post within a community.

The idea would be to give end users more information they can use to filter posts or communities, rather than to help people discover posts.

Don’t repost my comment onto github issue 317, I’ve commented there already.

A tagging is something that would be very nice to have and I’m in full support of it. Anyways here are the parts that I’d like to see implemented:

• Communities can have inbuilt tags that apply to every post
• Users can add tags of their own to a post
• There should be reasonable limits to how many tags can be placed and federate (I suggest 5 of each type)
• Communities should optionally have a filter list of what tags are permitted to be assigned and anything outside of that is discarded from the post
• Instances can maintain a list of “popular tags in the last day” etc. (a /trending page)
• The endpoint for aggregating local, subscribed and Fediverse posts by tag is a big feature and should be prioritized. e.g. server.com/t/gaming
• An endpoint for filtering posts by tag is desirable: server.com/c/community/t/discussion for example. This could be implemented similarly but separately as a flair, possibly.
• Tags should be a separate field entirely to the post body if possible, otherwise they should exclusively be written at the end of the body, to avoid parts of the body text incorrectly picked up as a tag
• An instance’s slur filter should apply to the tags
• Users should have the option to not display tags
• Backwards compatibility doesn’t have to be perfect but should be kept in mind (e.g. can the tagged and untagged versions of lemmy still federate, etc.)
• How tags on Lemmy will federate and display on other ActivityPub servers is a consideration.

I’ll add: I think having a limit on number of tags, not just the number displayed is important, to ensure people actually curate their topics correctly, it limits stupid tags like #lol that you’d see on tumblr and it prevents bots that tag everything with 100 tags from appearing everywhere.

I would love, to have Tags in Lemmy. I love them to find posts on the same topic ore news in Mastodon, and I would use them the same way here. For me it would also be a good solution of the “Problem” with dublicated ore unspecific Communities. So if i’m only interested in a subtopic, I can just follow the tag, and get only the content I’m interested in. (For example, if I only want posts about climate news, I can follow a community for climate news, but also the tag #climatenews (ore something) to get posts from for example Worldbews too.

Depends on how it’s implemented.

If it leads to anyone subscribing to a tag (like technology) would get posts from all instances in the Lemmy network tagged with technology, it would make it much better for all smaller instances to get an audience without posting to the larger ones.

This is in my opinion how it should be implemented, so it’s not important where a community is stored.

But if its just a way to tag posts with several tags, it may lead to posts being really spammy in nature, and everyone using 5 tags on each post. I think mastadon posts here on Lemmy are already a bit spammy.

this is like “flair”. but, tailored for lemmy. that looks good

If it also comes with being able to filter a community using tags, it would be perfect. Also, please make it so the moderator can add a tag to a post.

Would be great and is needed for a variety of different reasons.

A better solution is a curated list of tags users can attach to their posts.

I understand some communities wouldn’t want unrestricted tags, but it’d be nice if this was an option they could configure. It’d be annoying for say a gaming community to have to add a tag for every game ever, or a music comm every band ever.

I think it would be an excellent feature. I would also suggest limiting the keywords to something like 5 per post to avoid people spamming every conceivable key word in order to get more exposure.

I foresee tagchaos with multilingual instances. It would be great if identical but translated popular tags could be LUTted together such that a ‘technology’ tag also gives ‘technologie’ results if the user sets their preferred language tag settings accordingly. The tagger also needs to be stopped from using both.