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If I look at websites like Quora or Medium they usually ask you to select broad categories. I haven't thought deeply about it but tags that are already used on YouTube and Medium seems to be the most obvious to classify the content.

Do you have an idea in mind?

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I don't have an idea other than tags, I was curious if you did.

Tags seem like a good idea, the only thing that worries me is that they would be easy to abuse. That being said, I'd be willing to bet it would come out better than what we currently have.

If you look at YouTube there are tags but also the category that you can select when you upload a video (Lifestyle/How-to and so on) so maybe we could simply use that along with tags to get accurate classification.

However, if I made a new video platform (Daunting task) I would penalize content creator who purposefully mis-categories their content.

Seems like a decent proposition. If you wanted to hack around with the idea invidious might be a good place to start.

That should cover your frontend, so you could focus on the recommendation scheme.

Edit: If you do decide to play around with it and decide to open source it, could you send me a link to your repo? I'd be interested to watch, and possibly contribute here and there. My email is in my bio.

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