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 ↩︎

  • fubo@lemmy.world
    36·
    1 year ago

    While we’re at it, can we abandon the “NSFW” terminology entirely?

    There have been many calls to separate out “porn/erotica” from “gore/violence” from other topics that might be tagged “NSFW”.

    This is a perfect opportunity to do that.

    • Pyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      I thought it was generally accepted that porn was NSFW and gore/ick was NSFL.

      • jadero@programming.dev
        8·
        1 year ago

        I think it is, but NSFW has quite a bit of metaphorical use, too. I’ve seen particularly beautiful examples of craftsmanship labeled jokingly (?) as NSFW to highlight the the difference between merely masterful work and artistry. That’s one of the reasons I manage by subscription rather than by filter.

        Even the word “porn” doesn’t really work. There are various Porn groups on Reddit, like EarthPorn, which was dedicated to amazing examples of completely natural landscapes.

      • fubo@lemmy.world
        32·
        1 year ago

        That distinction is not expressed in the way “NSFW” is used on Lemmy today.

        In any event, “NSFW” as currently used has other things wrong with it from a social standpoint.

        For example, it centers employers as our source of social standards, which is a position of extreme submission to capitalist control of social spaces.

        It implicitly asks posters to tag their posts according to their understanding of other people’s employers’ opinions rather than according to their knowledge of the content itself.

        For that matter, some people’s work is making porn. Erasing sex workers is regressive bullshit.

        • Pyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          it centers employers as our source of social standards, which is a position of extreme submission to capitalist control of social spaces.

          Have you considered the possibility that the general public’s social standards have been inherited by offices, and not the other way round?

          The “work” aspect of the phrase makes sense because it’s generally understood that a great many people browse various websites in an office where it’s easy for other people to glance over and see what’s on your screen.
          You’d be ostracised (or even fired) in most workplaces if caught viewing content we currently mark as NSFW, much like you would be in any other public place like a library or a park (though people seeing your screen in these locations may be less frequent).
          Work is chosen for the phrase because a) it’s the most likely place you’ll be when viewing content, and b) the place you’ll get in the most trouble for doing so.
          Knowing this, it makes sense.

          It implicitly asks posters to tag their posts according to their understanding of other people’s employers’ opinions

          I think you’re taking the acronym a bit too literally here. Plus I already explained why it it is the way it is above.

          In any case, what else would you have everyone call it? “Content you wouldn’t want people looking over your shoulder and seeing”? Or perhaps “media that you would be embarrassed if your phone blasted it in public”? It’s a bit long winded, don’t you think?

          • DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone
            21·
            1 year ago

            Maybe rambling a bit, tired and drunk, sorry not sorry.

            Have you considered the possibility that the general public’s social standards have been inherited by offices, and not the other way round?

            Like it or not, I feel that the general public’s social standards have historically been dictated mainly by religion, and therefore are (1) different in certain areas/countries; and (2) slow to change. Think of, for example, Sunday trading, holidays for Christmas and Easter, the wearing of certain items of clothing, the use of certain words in public, to name a few. What was common and acceptable 20 or 50 years ago in a white christian country may be NSFW now, and vice versa (such as girly calendars in the workplace, the hiring and treatment of ethnic minorities). Even within a country, different areas may have different social standards.

            NSFW makes a direct reference to the workplace, but could also refer to material (not necessarily just visual media) that you might not want your child(ren), parent(s), partner, general public to see on your screen, and as someone else pointed out, could also refer to NSFL.

            What could offend one person or group could be fine and acceptable to another; but a discussion of “political correctness”, “wokeness”, and reaction to being offended, is probably better suited to another time and place.

            For these reasons, I think that NSF[WL] is too narrow a category; on the other hand I can’t think of a better, unless you use a completely different system, for example video ratings (adults only, [extreme] violence, mature themes, supernatural, parental guidance required).

          • fubo@lemmy.world
            22·
            1 year ago

            Hmm. When was the last time you saw a discussion of race hatred or religious bigotry labeled “NSFW”? Those things are also “bad” in American workplaces.

            • Pyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              I haven’t seen any labelled NSFW. In fact, I luckily haven’t seen any at all. Though if I were to take a guess: the reason such discussions aren’t marked NSFW is because the people who take part in them don’t care about anyone but themselves and their own opinions. Asking them to be considerate and correctly flair their posts is meaningless as they are seemingly incapable of considering others.

              I’m not sure what any of that had to do with what I said before though.

              • fubo@lemmy.world
                11·
                1 year ago

                You seemed to be offering a complicated explanation of why “NSFW” is just fine and my objections to it are dopey.

                But it’s not just fine. It doesn’t even do what it supposedly promises to do, namely mark things that someone would get in trouble with their employer for having up on their screen at work.

                Because “NSFW” is used to mean “porn, and maybe gore” it doesn’t even succeed at marking other things that are not, y’know, safe for work.

                And it’s still not a great idea to use “some generic (but probably American) employer’s standards” as part of the core rules for social interaction online.

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      This would actually work well with a tag system. Like you have predefined content warning tags. “Porn”, “Nudity”, “Gore”, “Violence”, “Sexual assault”, or whatever might be in the text/image/video. Users could then filter tags in their settings.

      Defining the tags and enforcing them in communities would probably be the biggest hurdle.

    • Nate Cox@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      All the support for this. I don’t even personally care much but I’ve seen this requested so many times.