it would be cool if posts could be geo-tagged (feddit.org)

submitted 3 months ago by gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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i see a lot of news about australian politics, news of seattle, darmstadt, brazil, ... all places where i don't live, where the posts aren't relevant to me. it would be cool to be able to tag posts/communities with a geographical location so i can easily filter which posts are / aren't probably relevant to me. in one setting in my profile, instead of having to block each community individually (there's hundreds of them at this point)

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[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

yeah but hashtags don't tell you anything about what kind of thing it refers to. Is it a place? Is it a person? Is it an event? It does not provide that structured data that would be useful.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The thing is, a link to a Wikipedia article isn't structured data either. It could very well link to the article about The Little Mermaid. Or the List of fictional pirates. So in that regard, both approaches are about on the same level. The hashtag just cuts off the unnecessary "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..."