Is there a discussion platform between Reddit and image boards that uses tags instead of subreddits?

Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

I’m curious if there are any discussion platforms out there that fall between Reddit and image boards in terms of structure and moderation.

The main thing I’m looking for is a platform that organizes discussions by user-created tags instead of predefined communities or subreddits. This would allow more flexibility in categorizing topics.

A tag system could hopefully make it easier to filter out or avoid content you don’t want to see. This could include topics like graphic violence, abuse, self-harm, pornography, hate speech, controversial politics and news events, specific phobias, anything related to past traumas, etc.

I know some communities allow you to filter by flair, but I’m imagining a more customizable tag filtering system to really tailor what you do and don’t see.

Does a platform with this kind of tag-based organization and filtering already exist?

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nix@merv.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is this not how mastodon/twitter works?

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KinNectar@kbin.run ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sounds like Tumblr. Mastodon or Kbin/Mbin on the Fediverse do this too.

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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Tumblr.

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- PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What I’m really looking for is the same tagging method of image boards where everyone collaborates tagging content. I think hashtags are just spam and tags are non disruptive metadata that can actually help organize content.
  
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  - Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That is exactly how it works with Tumblr, not so much the others. The tags are not part of the post itself, and others can add more that the OP didn’t add.
    
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sickmatter@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I was an early reddit user from before the time subreddits existed. Much of the user base, including myself, were asking for tag functionality, but the subreddit concept was introduced instead. I guess they needed a way to moderate tags, and that was their solution. Decades later, they told those same mods to go fuck themselves, so maybe they should have just used tags in the first place like they clearly expected subreddits to act.

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PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
tildes

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Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What about imgur zhich is basically an imageboard for redditors

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dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s a good idea with the tags.

I think the only structure that I wouldn’t change is the conversation tree.

How would tags be created? From a list or just any word?

Any word would be better but would make filtering trickier.

I think the only advantage of subs over tags is that it spreads the moderation workload.

(There are other ways to moderate tho. Strange experimental voting and filtering )

Surely there is a center of research for this stuff somewhere. Actually that would make a good sub.

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