I’m curious if there are any discussion platforms out there that fall between Reddit and image boards in terms of structure and moderation.
The main thing I’m looking for is a platform that organizes discussions by user-created tags instead of communities or subreddits. This would allow more flexibility in categorizing topics.
A tag system could hopefully make it easier to filter out or avoid content you don’t want to see. This could include topics like graphic violence, abuse, self-harm, pornography, hate speech, politics, religion, phobias, anything related to past traumas, etc.
I know some communities allow you to filter by flair, but I’m imagining a more customizable tag filtering system to really tailor what you do and don’t see.
Does a platform with this kind of tag-based organization and filtering already exist?
I was an early reddit user from before the time subreddits existed. Much of the user base, including myself, were asking for tag functionality, but the subreddit concept was introduced instead. I guess they needed a way to moderate tags, and that was their solution. Decades later, they told those same mods to go fuck themselves, so maybe they should have just used tags in the first place like they clearly expected subreddits to act.