> It means that you're building a knowledge base. That's precisely the problem. You started with tags and now you are building a knowledge base. You wanted a b

> It means that you're building a knowledge base. That's precisely the problem. You started with tags and now you are building a knowledge base. You wanted a banana and now you have a gorilla holding a banana and the whole jungle. If you want to build a knowledge base, use links/URIs/ontologies. You'll find out the moment you add cycles the algorithms get way more intense. And then once you have stronger algos, you want more search power. Next thing you know you are bikeshedding about things like "apple" is both "fruit" and "tech company" so you need tags-of-tags etc. Just build a knowledge base if you need a knowledge base. Otherwise tags are just a way to do faceted search. They aren't mutually exclusive, either. OpenTelemetry, for example, has both tags and references.