Due to the high density of technical aspects, we decided to keep this blog post more on the light side and focus on explaining the new functionalities. Check our Wiki Milestone entry for all the juicy details.
GNU social v2 has tags and lists. It allows you to:
gnusocial#hashtag and see a stream of notes tagged with it;@#list_nameIt is limited with regards to federation of self tags and the @#list_name can't
target remote actors even when they are inside your list.
We now federate self tags and lists, so that constraint from v2 was moved out of the way.
In the future, the use of these tags can allow you to find people, groups and even individual notes that have a tag you're interested in. We only mean filtering, not magic recommendation algorithms.
Proposed by @licho in Tue, 02 Jun 2019 17:52:07 GMT:
I like the tag wrangling feature of AO3, which I think would help for cases of synonymous tags like #introduction and #introductions
https://archiveofourown.org/wrangling_guidelines/11
Is it feasible for !gnusocial ? Or would it cause problems?
The answer is yes and will be released with v3. With the addition of Languages in notes and actors there was little excuse not to be feasible.
Whenever you post a note containing tags, you can choose whether to
make those tags canonical. This means that, for instance, the tags
#run and #running become the 'same', meaning that when you click on
the link for the #run tag, you'll also see notes tagged #running. You
can opt out of the behaviour by unchecking the "Make note tags
canonical". An identical process occurs for people tags.
Internally, this transformation is accomplished by splitting the tag into words and stemming each word.
In a tag feed, you can see tags that are often used together with the one you're seeing. This can be useful, for instance, for finding other content you'd be interested in.
When you click on a tag, be it a note tag or a person tag, you'll see a feed of notes/people with that tag. You can also edit the feeds you see in your left panel, so you can follow a given tag.
If you don't like seeing a given tag in your feeds, for whatever reason, you can choose to mute it. You can mute a note tag or a person tag, in which case you wouldn't see any notes from people with that tag.