The natural end state of hashtags is to eventually serve as subreddits for the #SocialWeb. but here they would overlap, allowing us to visit any space in the Venn diagram of all the tagged posts we're interested in.
why do we need that extra moderation? people might poison hashtags but they already do. current moderation can deal with that. what I also want here is all replies managed like on reddit/lemmy/kbin.
@wjmaggos - Using hashtags like groups would likely involve pulling in more of the social graph than a single server sees through follows alone; this goes beyond the scale a server admin could easily moderate.
What about single-user servers? Probably you'd need relays or other servers' feeds to get enough data to populate hashtags, and a lot of spam could come with that.
Collapsing tagged replies into threads, and viewing hashtags like a forum board, is a good idea though (Tapir feature? 🤔)
maybe we could try it. beyond the cool value of overlap, having any place or group be where we discuss a subject doesn't make sense when we're supposed to be decentralized. I love what kbin/lemmy are trying to do but we're built different. we need to design for that.
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