@alter_kaker said in Meta Topic—What do we Want?:
My biggest concern is that it might be difficult to keep politics out of Torah discussions
It might be that I choose to stay out of those discussions. I'm chronically ill and make these sorts of decisions every day.
How granular do you think this should be? We can have levels of categories on here
I'd start fairly broad so there's activity in each category, rather than a complex but partially empty structure, with subcategories for a few known needs or interests like klezmer and Hasidic ideas.
(Is Daniel still on his own klezmer instance? Or am I remembering that totally wrong? Might be useful to federate that and automate cross-posting to here? It would be a safe controlled way to try this out.)
how do we handle the radical differences between different frames of reference? ... One of my goals is to enable a space where people of different FoRs can interact.... In the old Facebook group I was on back in the day they would tag discussions with a FoR, and people would have to handle themselves. We could do that, or use the categories... What do you think?
Make that goal clear from the outset. Also create a thread specifically to talk about how to do this so early members are all involved and those who join later can see our work and contribute their thoughts.
Tags so readers have an idea what to expect is good, and so is the expectation that people will handle themselves.
I'm going back and forth on the idea of categories for the movements while the group is small and have currently landed on build it so it's clear there's space for everyone.
Those are my thoughts on the questions you've raised 
(Oh, can we have a rule that positive, supportive emojis are read as positive and supportive? 
Had a bit of trouble with someone reading : ) as passive aggressive. I'm too old to remember all those hidden meanings 
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