sooooo if i was to play with a lil site for "fediverse classifieds" that advertised different skillshare options what do u think the categories are

[inherentlee@flipping.rocks]

@WizardOfDocs heard

[lj@zirk.us]

@inherentlee I'm also a long time food preserver: canning, dehydrating, freezing, & fermenting.

[inherentlee@flipping.rocks]

@LJ to be clear you don't gotta give me all your skills! i am not doing anything with the actual skills. i am just trying to ascertain how to categorize a broad and largely unknowable list lol

[ranjit@friend.camp]

@inherentlee this is the list of categories from ask.metafilter.com which is not quite trying to answer the same question, but might suggest some ideas?

[inherentlee@flipping.rocks]

@ranjit oh god that's a lot and idk if we'll have enough volume to justify that many but that is very useful regardless

[ranjit@friend.camp]

@inherentlee i can say that after manually retyping all those categories ("detect text in image" didn't work), the ampersand no longer means anything to my eyes

[inherentlee@flipping.rocks]

@ranjit it's Just A Squiggle

[mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks]

@inherentlee I suspect using “repair” somewhere in the category might help it find better traction especially here on Fedi with the whole “right to repair” movement.

I dunno. Labels and binaries always chafe me, but librarian habits die hard

[nev@flipping.rocks]

@inherentlee hmm

- computer touching
- grass touching
- fixing stuff
- arts & crafts
- book learnin'

[inherentlee@flipping.rocks]

@nev working titles i have so far...

technology
animals and the outdoors
diy
art and crafts
science and history OR literature and writing (which needs title help it might want the word editing in there? jury's still out)

[inherentlee@flipping.rocks]

@nev yours are cuter tho idk i kindfa might lean into that

[inherentlee@flipping.rocks]

@nev i feel like comprehensibility helps tho

[mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks]

@inherentlee would a boost help, or do you prefer to keep this more low key “thinking out loud”? I don’t want replies to escape containment if that would overload the process

[moss@beige.party]

@inherentlee I can see what you mean, but/and to my mind there’s a difference between “nature” and “home life”. Both include “how to get along with animals”, but one is like “how to identify a hawk” and one is “how to introduce a new kitten”. So maybe “animals” is a usefully broad category, but “nature/outdoors” is too broad?

[inherentlee@flipping.rocks]

@mycrowgirl eh i'm fine either way, it's more of a thinking out loud thing and doesn't need to get big but i did actually consider whether i wanted this followers only this time lmao and decided it didn't need to be

[inherentlee@flipping.rocks]

@Moss broad is actually pretty good at this stage because i don't expect a lot of volume, so i would totally group hawks and kittens in the same category imo!

[inherentlee@flipping.rocks]

@Moss if for some odd reason this becomes an actual thing i can do mroe category work, but with too many categories it will look super sparse.

[ranjit@friend.camp]

@inherentlee @Moss don't group hawks and kittens in the same room tho!!!!

[inherentlee@flipping.rocks]

@ranjit @Moss dw i will protect those kittens!!!!

from a distance tho. cat allergies

[mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks]

@inherentlee that’s what subheaders are for 🤪 @nev