What’s your opinion on tags.pub? (socialwebfoundation.org)

submitted 6 months ago by loaf@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I’ll be totally honest and say that I don’t trust Evan (for reasons I’m not getting into), and I’m not sure why we need “hashtags with extra steps,” but I’d like to get opinions from people who are smarter than I am about this stuff.

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[-] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 6 months ago

This is an attempt to work around the lack of support for groups in Mastodon.

Anyone who wants tags.pub to be a thing should just use the threadiverse instead.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 6 months ago

It's quite easy to flip this around: forcing topical discussion through groups are just a workaround for lack of proper discovery and aggregated search...

To give you one simple example: I get a lot more useful and meaningful interactions from following #emacs on mastodon than by waiting for people to find out and post to !emacs@programming.dev. Same thing for #nfl and !nfl@nfl.community or !nfl@a.gup.pe, etc.