I’m curious if there are any discussion platforms out there that fall between Reddit and image boards in terms of structure and moderation.

The main thing I’m looking for is a platform that organizes discussions by user-created tags instead of communities or subreddits. This would allow more flexibility in categorizing topics.

A tag system could hopefully make it easier to filter out or avoid content you don’t want to see. This could include topics like graphic violence, abuse, self-harm, pornography, hate speech, politics, religion, phobias, anything related to past traumas, etc.

I know some communities allow you to filter by flair, but I’m imagining a more customizable tag filtering system to really tailor what you do and don’t see.

Does a platform with this kind of tag-based organization and filtering already exist?

  • @[email protected]
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    38 months ago

    I’d allow users to choose from a set of predefined tags, not create their own.

    And namespaced tags could be cool. So you could have aww:caturday or pcgaming:rpg

    The site UI would need to be really good or lots of tags on a single post would look awful.

    And I wonder how bad actors would attack it? Mistagging probably, but how effective could that be?

    • @Fal
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      38 months ago

      I think you just invented Usenet

    • @[email protected]OP
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      8 months ago

      I don’t know how image boards manage it, but they are always curated properly; I’ve yet to see troll tags.

    • PlasterAnalyst
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      08 months ago

      I had this idea years ago where users would utilize tags rather than cross posting. I really hate x-posting, but a lot of users like subscribing to subs. Tags would allow you to both subscribe to or filter out a very specific topic wherever it happens to be posted.

      I guess you could add search alerts or keyword filters and eliminate x-posting.