I had a quick question and thought it might spark some discussion.
I know that Lemmy currently uses the NSFW tag/filter, which is great, but I’ve noticed that it tends to get applied to a wide variety of content—everything from mildly suggestive posts to very graphic material.
This got me wondering: has Lemmy ever considered adding more granular content filters or tags?
For example:
NSFL (Not Safe For Life) for particularly graphic or disturbing content (ie graphic war footage)
Political for sensitive Political Posts
Other potential tags for things like triggering content, or etc.
The goal would be to give users a bit more control over what they see, and help communities categorize content more accurately without overloading the single NSFW tag.
Curious if this has ever been discussed, or if there are plans to expand filtering options in the future.
Tags would be useful for so many things - much more than content filters. For example, posts in a world news community could be tagged with the name of the country.
Having said that, it looks like tags were added in July 2025: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5869. I didn’t know about this!
I think what’s missing is filtering by tags.
Are the tags similar to how reddit allows users to put custom labels / tags in a Subreddit?
Or are they more like content moderation?
The GitHub.
I’m not sure - I haven’t looked into the implementation yet. I haven’t actually seen this tagging feature in the UI so I’m not sure how to even use it.
It looks like Lemmy 1.0 (currently in alpha testing) will support filtering by keywords, too: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-12-24_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.15_and_Testing_for_1.0
The frontend part for tags is currently being implemented: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3795
Once that is merged it will automatically be deployed to voyager.lemmy.ml where you can test the development version.