tags and interests

[frandroid]

I just had an epiphany. "interests" on DW profiles should not inhabit a semantic universe different than "tags". "interests" should be tags as well, as part of the tag system. So you could decide to search for messages about "anarchism", both about the topic, and also messages from people who have shown interest in anarchism. Well I guess you don't even need to merge the tag systems for that, you should be able to get a reading page of posts by people interested in anarchism, even if it's not explicitly about anarchism. It's a bit of mf'er of a database JOIN instruction, but still... :P

Comments

[ioplokon]

Right, but that's still person-centered vs object-of-interest centered? Idk maybe it's a silly objection. The main thing is I'd probably feel like I have to change my interests to reflect things I actually post about if your system were in place (vs rn where it's kind of a mix of that + things I'd like to read about/people I'd like to talk w/ - which actually works a bit better for discovery? Like I've had several people message me to add from interests)