this is exactly why you must add this field

wait a minute could I abuse the self-labelling system for this

Ignore paul, use the label field for whatever you like. This is the free internet.

👍 cool cool

You should make a “post to community” feature that adds a “community:fishing” type label to posts, then we can make feeds key off of that instead of hashtags or emojis

Then the feedgen could add some curation tools to allow people to moderate those feeds (using app passwords or something) and boom you get subreddits

this is bad advice, seriously don't do it this way

lol

outta curiosity how would you prefer

labels are designed to be used for content warnings (moderation). neutral or positive values *might* be possible in the future, but atm it would be a weird complication of the field that might make things much more difficult better options...

...would be either hashtags, the forthcoming reply-gating feature (to spec a target audience), or adding a completely separate field

I'm all for bending mechanics to create new systems, but using labels wouldn't do that. it would likely just create unpredictable outcomes

It’d be great to have a similar but more free-form field in that case, I’m sure the 🧪 science feed folks would love to be able to just flag posts directly without wasting characters

we should see how hashtags and reply-gates shake out. pretty sure we can get this community-style behavior off them. if not those then something else can work