thanks!

i guess it’s very similar :D

Yeah I’m personally tending to always separate data and processing.

Data means you have an underlying data source (in lemmy’s case the set of all lemmy servers hosting lemmy communities), and a separate system that does search/recommendation based on the data.

The search/recommendation system would not store any data itself, but only filter and sort and process the data from the underlying servers and communities.

thanks! are multi-communities anything like sql virtual tables? i.e they appear as one community, but are the result of querying multiple communities

tags are (on other platforms) a part of a post’s content. This means that every user creating a post has to attach every tag that is relevant to the post, which could be a lot of effort if there are many tags available.

It would also be interesting if other users (e.g. moderators) could attach tags to a post, i.e. the post exists independent of the tags, and the tags get applied after the post is created.

that would be relevant if it was about realism, instead it is about idealism. you just failed at grasping the spirit of the task.