hosestly this is kinda what tags are for. they should be added as tags and make choosing a tag a requirmeent of posting. that way it does not need to be policed.
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I don’t think Lemmy supports tags yet. It does seem like a natural use case, though, to allow filtering and sorting based on tags. It does kinda raise the question, though — if we’re doing all our categorization based on hashtags, what are communities for?
im not sure if they are hashtags what im talking about. im on piefed though but I know other communities have posts where you have to choose a dropdown and they make colorful tags that you can filter on from the community feed.
Oh I meant the free text “tags” field at the bottom of the piefed post creation form that lets you add a hashtag so that people on other fedi services like mastodon can find your posts. I see now what you’re suggesting,
Maybe a warning if you don't use it could help.
I swear I have posted to some communities where you had to choose something or it would stay greyed out.
Idk how much traction you're gonna get on this absent the mods agreeing to enforce it, tbqh. Also, NAFTA doesn't exist anymore, it was replaced in 2020 because, well, you know. Good luck though -- being able to sort and filter based on region would be nice.
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When/if Lemmy gets tags, I would say that would be a great thing. For now, I won't add more burden on posters.