Implement tags for communities

[felipeforte]

Now that Lemmy has reached the scale of dozens to hundreds of communities, implementing tags for communities may help navigate easier and deeper when exploring communities.

You could search for the "gaming" tag and communities tagged with that (tags managed by moderators and/or admins) would display several tagged communities related to gaming, including discussion, fan art, or communities about specific games all tagged under "gaming", just to give an example. Should make it easier to look for something specific in a sea of communities

[dessalines]

Not sure how useful this would be... just doing a search for gaming, and limiting to community types already gives you good results: https://lemmy.ml/search/q/gaming/type/Communities/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

[JackFromWisconsin]

I think this could be nice for community search engines (like the "unofficial" one shared somewhere, or any potential official ones on join-lemmy.org), so you could sort for all "gaming"-tagged communities.

[dessalines]

Def agree one is needed, or using the current one that's out there... don't know if we'd wanna link to it within the lemmy software tho, probably just on join-lemmy.org .

That's separate from this tho.

[yuuyins]

tags would be very helpful e.g. for cross-posting to all communities that have one or more tags at once. i find this would help very much with decentralization of sharing the information (i.e. the posts)

[xyzst]

I would like to see this implemented at the community level. It would make it easier to organize topics within a community.

For example: if a mod is overseeing a city community, a number of different topics can arise like sports teams, local news, events, local discussion, or local memes.

Not everybody cares about "sports" but can continue to follow the posts that show up under other tags. Or if one tag becomes too chatty, then can unfollow the tag.

[Fmstrat]

Personally I think individual post tagging will end up being pretty inconsistent, but perhaps not terrible.

The now-rightfully closed community category ticket had some useful info in it, but one specific piece would be curating your own feed.

It would be nice if this issue's solution allowed users to tag the communities they are subscribed to privately within their account. This way they could have a "sports" feed or a "humor" feed and not have to rely on posters or community admins being consistent across instances, and could exist without hard-coded lists that were a problem with categories.

[dessalines]

That seems almost more in line with #818 .