Another interesting thing that @Flipboard is doing is creating a hierarchical topic space in the #fediverse by concatenating topics into user names.
In plain speak: more than one user handle for the same account but different topics.
Example: there is @Semafor, @semafor@flipboard.social and @politics@flipboard.social, probably more. Not sure yet exactly how the convention works, but it's needed just like blogs often have sub-RSS feeds in lower-level topic categories.
@J12t@Flipboard That's an interesting approach, and one that has some appeal to me.
Just how important are handle aesthetics? It is certainly nice to have @ devnull@crag.social but how much extra metadata can we stick in there before it becomes unwieldy?
#nodebb right now exposes categories as cid.2@whatever but would cid.2.tag1.tag2.uid1.uid2@whatever be an antipattern? lol
@devnull Yep an interesting question. There's also the issue that topic membership is never boolean but fuzzy, we just have been trained to force-feed topics into hard categories. With the rise of machine learning approaches, this may become much fuzzier soon. Then what's the identifier?
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