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 ↩︎

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    I liked the idea of “flair” from Reddit so if it’s the same basic idea I’m in favor. The distinction there is that you could only choose flair from a predefined list and not just make up whatever you wanted (some subs did allow that too but mods determined if it was a thing or not).

    So in short, yes if it’s not freeform and mods can decide if it’s enabled.

      • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        Some communities had a Bot set up that automatically adds the flair from the title. For example

        [Question] what are flairs on reddit

        Some communities also require to post the name the source. A bot then would create and add the flair to the post

        It’s a pretty good system. What I didn’t like about that is that you could only use one tag for each post.

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        As others have said I think communities are already a good way to find or focus on specific content. Having user-defined tags that are essentially freeform seems like a step back. Also seems like it would be more work for mods to police appropriate use of freeform tags vs a short list of “flairs”. I think any tagging solution should assist with browsing rather than finding.