> collaborative tagging > found interesting items based on your tag cloud and items adjacent to those tagged in your cloud
Pinboard used to allow browsing public bookmarks without account. If you have one (not me) maybe you still can go to any tag [0] or user and explore tag clouds / adjacency.
Are.na [1] allows a similar kind of networked exploration of links (more general collections than tags though). It is really a (self-described) rabbit hole (but without tag clouds)
Zotero [2] does have a tag cloud (local and web). IMO their online groups are underrated for bookmarks/references collaboration/publication . . I love its UI ! It works on mobile too (browser or custom apps)
So alternatives do exist, but the scale and innovation are not there. I hope someday we will go back to an enhanced form of popular tagging, maybe using Semantics (to associate), AI (to generate) and open decentralized protocols (to standardize)
Pinboard used to allow browsing public bookmarks without account. If you have one (not me) maybe you still can go to any tag [0] or user and explore tag clouds / adjacency.
Are.na [1] allows a similar kind of networked exploration of links (more general collections than tags though). It is really a (self-described) rabbit hole (but without tag clouds)
Zotero [2] does have a tag cloud (local and web). IMO their online groups are underrated for bookmarks/references collaboration/publication . . I love its UI ! It works on mobile too (browser or custom apps)
So alternatives do exist, but the scale and innovation are not there. I hope someday we will go back to an enhanced form of popular tagging, maybe using Semantics (to associate), AI (to generate) and open decentralized protocols (to standardize)
[0] Exple: https://pinboard.in/t:bookmarking
[1] Exple Collection : https://www.are.na/emily-degrandpre/collaborative-knowledge-...
[2] Random public group : https://www.zotero.org/groups/25016/digital_humanities_educa...