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  1. Comment on Thoughts on making Tildes groups more independent in ~tildes.official

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    I think the subgroup idea is neat, and useful for "threads" that span multiple posts, but I hope tildes isn't planning on trying to force everything into an idealized tree hierarchy. Looking at...

    I think the subgroup idea is neat, and useful for "threads" that span multiple posts, but I hope tildes isn't planning on trying to force everything into an idealized tree hierarchy.

    Looking at https://docs.tildes.net/instructions/hierarchical-tags it appears that is the plan?
    Trying to fit the world into a tree is one of those approaches that sounds great in theory but tends to fall apart in reality (see Usenet). Communities are fractal and hierarchical taxonomies are highly political.

    Again, I think the subgroup concept is awesome and helpful, but the relatively flat approach taken by reddit was a feature, not a bug.

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  2. Comment on Stop talking to each other and start buying things: Three decades of survival in the desert of social media in ~tech

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    It would be neat if there was an automagic link back to the previous post(s) for context, but for whatever it's worth I'm glad this got reposted because I got to be part of today's lucky 10,000.

    It would be neat if there was an automagic link back to the previous post(s) for context, but for whatever it's worth I'm glad this got reposted because I got to be part of today's lucky 10,000.

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