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  • That is more of an argument involving the implementation of tags in general within the federation. But to answer your question:

    Let’s say a group of people were to make a post on Mastodon with the tag #girls_night. How will all instances agree on the tag being correct?

    The simple answer is they won’t. If a tag is contentious, it will be like any other drama between instances.

    It’s the same for implementing tag hierarchy. Let’s say there is a default setup. Then if a tag or a tree of tags is contentious, each instance can include or exclude as they see fit.


  • Two new tables for “tags” would be required. One for instance wide tags and one for community tags.

    a curated list of tags users can attach to their posts. The list of tags can be maintained by both admins and moderators allowing for each community to tailor tags to their specific needs.

    It’s not what I was suggesting, but this should definitely be implemented for Lemmy.

    I’m talking about how some tags should directly relate to one another, and how this should not always be the case in vice-versa. The system I’m suggesting is less useful when you limit the scope of tags (as the RFC does), but you can’t really do that for user-centric websites like Mastodon.

    I think I’ll make an edit to clarify this in post.