Custom tag for community?

submitted by AchtungDrempels

Is it maybe planned to be able to set a custom tag for a community instead of one pulled from the url? I reckon there are many communities where this would make more sense.

Like the community i am moderating is c/bicycle_touring, but i think #biketouring and #bikepacking are the hashtags that are being used on mastodon for this stuff.

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Blaze (he/him)

Seems like a good idea. Have you opened a ticket on the Github?

AchtungDrempels [OP]

Right? No, i didn't, i am not on github.

Blaze (he/him)

The devs have said that they only follow issues on GitHub, so if it stays here the chances of it making it to the development pipelines are quite low

AchtungDrempels [OP]

Ah ok. I would kinda be surprised if that hasn't been discussed, this should be relevant for a lot of communities. Just checked for example #desire_paths has 0 posts on mastodon, they're all being posted without underscore. Or !bicycles@lemmy.ca would probably be better categorized under a #bicycle" or "bicycling" hashtag.

Maybe someone here with a github account thinks this is a good idea and will create an issue there. If not i may look into it when i am done with my holidays.

breadsmasher

Cant imagine anything worse than not only specific communities names to post to, but also arbitrarily collecting up #hashtags. Would these appear as posts to you? What if the poster didn’t want it to appear in your community?

AchtungDrempels [OP]

Not sure i get what you're saying. Lemmy now adds a hashtag for better mastodon interoperability that is pulled from the url of the community. I was simply proposing that it would be nice if this hashtag could be customized if it would make sense to do so, as an option.

Interstellar_1 , edited

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Is it just for better integration with mastodon?

AchtungDrempels [OP]

Yeah, like what the introduction of hashtags for lemmy posts aims for.