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Just spitballing here, but one solution is mandatory tagging, where you must pick at least one tag before posting. Additionally other users and mods on your Mas
by hendersoon 4y ago
Just spitballing here, but one solution is mandatory tagging, where you must pick at least one tag before posting. Additionally other users and mods on your Mastodon instance can vote to add tags as they see fit, and the mods may at their discretion discipline people who tag deceptively.
The protocol itself could be amended to include a set of very high-level tags. Say for example, politics, sports, TV, movies, gaming, celebrities, fashion, personal, and NSFW. Don't have one of those? Your post won't be federated.
Then if you're on a Mastodon instance dedicated to (for example) Porsche cars, you would have custom tags available by default for models, engines, make years, and so on to enrich the metadata.
Mastodon already lets users subscribe to hashtags so much of the baseline functionality already exists, other than the control aspect.
- forgotpwd16 4y ago>The protocol itself could be amended to include a set of very high-level tags. Say for example, politics, sports, TV, movies, gaming, celebrities, fashion, personal, and NSFW. Or rather tags have groups under an hierarchy to which groups someone post. Something like comp.os.linux or comp.lang.python. Oh, wait...
- hendersoon 4y agoThe benefit of tagging over categorization is you can have multiples coupled together. So if you're posting about a Lego set for the new Wonder Woman 1993 flick, you could tag #LEGO, #SUPERHERO, and #MOVIE rather than posting under rec.toys.lego.
- forgotpwd16 4y agoUsenet allowed cross-posting resulting in a unique thread across multiple groups.
- hendersoon 4y agoTrue, but that seems less elegant and Twitter users are already comfortable with tags.