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.

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
    2·
    11 months ago

    I think they meant that # is used in many other ways than “the hash tag sign” and you should refer to it as such, e.g. as hash sign, pound sign or number sign.

    • neidu2@feddit.nl
      3·
      11 months ago

      Correct. Today I learned that putting it at the start of a line here makes it looks like you’re yelling random statements.