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Questions about tags (media.piefed.social)
submitted 4 days ago by klu9@piefed.social to c/piefed_help@piefed.social
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  1. Can a mod add tags to someone else's post?

  2. How many tags are possible and will be shown?
    I just started a movie community, with tags for actors etc already at ~30. Potentially that could increase to... hundreds? More?
    How many will display? Will it always display all of them or can it be hidden /drop down, like spoiler text? Perhaps partially, e.g. the top tags are shown by default but you have to click "Expand" to see the rest.

  3. What about tags in places other than the Piefed tags entry field? E.g. in post body, comments etc. Are they... "recognized" / "effective"?

  4. Dammit, I had one more, can't remember it now.

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[–] wjs018@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
  1. Yes. A community mod or admin is able to add flair to somebody else's post. This is especially useful when the OP is not on a piefed instance and unable to use flair at all. One caveat to this is that if the community is from a lemmy instance, the mod-assigned flair will not federate out to other piefed instances. You should see a little flair icon on the post previews in your community (next to the three dots menu) that opens a flair assignment menu.
  2. I don't remember there being a limit to flair for the community, and yes, all of them will be shown. So, it makes sense to keep the flair list somewhat limited in scope with broad categories. Something like hashtags make more sense for more specific categories. The community with the most flair that I know of is !fediverse@piefed.social if you want to see what a lot of flair looks like.
  3. I actually don't know. I do know that tags from microblog posts are picked up, but I don't know about the body of piefed or lemmy posts.
[–] klu9@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks. I know a mod can add flair but I mean hashtags like #actionmovies, #michaelmadsen etc.

Flair (e.g. Full Movie, Meta etc) will be much more limited.

[–] wjs018@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Apologies for reading too quickly. I believe that tags are solely up to the OP and can't be modified by the mod or admin. As for question 2, when it comes to many different tags, that shouldn't be a problem really. Only the 30 (I think) most-used are displayed in the sidebar, but there could be many, many more. Here are all the tags used so far on piefed.social for instance.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks.

Would it be possible to expand or link to a community's remaining tags, beyond the top 30?

[–] wjs018@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It would certainly be possible, but I don't think there is a way to do so right now. I would imagine the most straightforward way of doing this would be to have a page for the community that lists the tags. So, you could have:

https://piefed.social/c/action_movies/tags

and that would bring you to a page with all the tags that have been used in that community. Maybe a button on the sidebar somewhere to take the user to that page.

I went ahead and made a codeberg issue for the idea.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks!

[–] freamon@preferred.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That codeberg issue is now fixed btw - I added a screenshot there to show what it'll look like when the code is deployed to piefed.social.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

Cool, thanks! Already working for me on my community on piefed.social. :)

[–] freamon@preferred.social 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Re: 3. No. For sending, they need to be in that tags form field, and for receiving, they need to have been in the ActivityPub "tags": {"type": "hashtag"} section for a post. For both directions, PieFed isn't regexing any text anywhere to look for something that might be a tag.

cc: @wjs018@piefed.social

[–] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the info.