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Where should I discuss "tagging" in websites? (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by actual_patience@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I want to discuss a better means of organizing tags for websites that use a generic tagging system. I propose a tag hierarchy.

Basically, if I search for #dog, I should find posts with #puppy, #pug, #baby_pugs, #cute_dogs, etc.

But, if I search for #pug, I should only get posts with #pug, or other tags like #baby_pugs, #cute_pugs, etc.

This would make adding 50+ similar tags to a post irrelevant and allow for normal people to put a single obscure tag and still gain visibility.

I want to bring this idea up to more people. Where should I discuss this? You can suggest any website, community, or Lemmy instance where I could possibly develop this further.

I'm happy to discuss this here as well.

[Edit for clarity]: I am not just talking about tags for the federation and Mastodon. I am talking about improving any and all websites with a generic tagging system. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. etc.

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[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's currently an RFC open for this.

[–] actual_patience@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

Two new tables for "tags" would be required. One for instance wide tags and one for community tags.

a curated list of tags users can attach to their posts. The list of tags can be maintained by both admins and moderators allowing for each community to tailor tags to their specific needs.

It's not what I was suggesting, but this should definitely be implemented for Lemmy.

I'm talking about how some tags should directly relate to one another, and how this should not always be the case in vice-versa. The system I'm suggesting is less useful when you limit the scope of tags (as the RFC does), but you can't really do that for user-centric websites like Mastodon.

I think I'll make an edit to clarify this in post.