 Another interesting thing that @Flipboard is doing is creating a hierarchical topic space in the #fediverse by concatenating topics into user names. In plain speak: more than one user handle for the same account but different topics. Example: there is @Semafor, @semafor-semafor@flipboard.social and @politics-semafor@flipboard.social, probably more. Not sure yet exactly how the convention works, but it's needed just like blogs often have sub-RSS feeds in lower-level topic categories. 3 comments
@devnull Yep an interesting question. There's also the issue that topic membership is never boolean but fuzzy, we just have been trained to force-feed topics into hard categories. With the rise of machine learning approaches, this may become much fuzzier soon. Then what's the identifier? @J12t @Flipboard @Semafor unintentional side affect. The names are based on the magazine name. Many curators create multiple magazines with the name representing different topics. These are all groups (similar to how peertube has different channels per user as groups). |
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@J12t @Flipboard That's an interesting approach, and one that has some appeal to me.
Just how important are handle aesthetics? It is certainly nice to have @ devnull@crag.social but how much extra metadata can we stick in there before it becomes unwieldy?
#nodebb right now exposes categories as cid.2@whatever but would cid.2.tag1.tag2.uid1.uid2@whatever be an antipattern? lol