this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
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thanks for this, I wasn't clear on what goes where and this helps
https://hexbear.net/comment/5630534 This is what CARCOSA said when the comms were launched
My interpretation is that slop is for bad things said or done by nonfamous people, gossip is for bad things said by a famous person such as a celebrity or politician. If a government enacts a reactionary policy or law, I put that in news. When a government does anything, it's news comm, because it's material action that impacts people's lives. If a politician does something reactionary, it could be news or could be gossip or even politics comm, depending on the material impact of the action or thing said.
My philosophy is that the comm should be chosen by the amount of material impact behind the subject. It annoys me a lot when an impactful news story gets posted in the slop comm.
What makes this difficult is a few things in my experience.
Ideally, you would create as few comms as needed covering the broadest strokes possible, and delineate them with tags, creating a hierarchy of comms and tags.
News could embody all types of content, for example.
Posts should be allowed to have any number of tags, and honestly, I don't see why there should be much difference between a tag and a comm... There should be tags that are site wide, like NSFW, which would be a tag that is configured to blur its contents, or marked as a "content warning" tag.
Honestly I would love this. Replace comms with tags (which side note: should work with mastodon tags), posts can be in as many tags as possible, and those tags should be editable after posting, including my moderators.
I think the main issue would be that currently moderators are per-comnunity, and having moderators per-tag just feels weird.
Additionally, the blurring of content could be done like bluesky labelers, where you can specify that certain tags should make content fully hidden, blurred, or fully visible.
Yeah, the only big issue with replacing Comms with Tags is that Communities can be extremely tailored to a very specific niche thanks to the silo effect and having attached mods. This only works when the network effect is powerful, like with Reddit, where you have millions of users, though. I don't see Tags really allowing for that level of community building ultimately.
Simply adding Tags (global tags and local community tags) would go a long way in condensing the number of communities, which raises the level of engagement of communities.