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Introducing tags.pub

tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server -- it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There's lots of information on the tags.pub home page, and I (Evan) did a talk about tags.pub at FOSDEM 2026. This blog post answers some basics about tags.pub. To follow a hashtag globally, search for a user with that name at tags.pub, like @example for the #example hashtag. Follow that account, and it will share all the […]

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/

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𝕁𝕠𝕙𝕒𝕟

@evanprodromou

So this isn't global tracking, but rather opt-in for a couple of servers and a dozen individual users?

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Rusty Shackleford 3d ago

@johan @evanprodromou

Re: https://mastodon.social/@rusty__shackleford/116188992459133547

When you are on the fedi, your messages are broadcast. ***Anyone*** can see them. That's why I can see your posts, mastodon.social saved your post, and served it to me, and vice versa, that's why you see this text.

If you don't want the possibility of 'tracking', we may not have been able to have this conversation but you could join a private server, or be more safe about your personal identity, or get offline.

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𝕁𝕠𝕙𝕒𝕟 3d ago

@rusty__shackleford @evanprodromou

Exactly. For example, in the Cyrillic segment there’s a bot that reposts every message in Russian it can get access to. And it operates on an opt-out basis.

Here, however, as I understand it from the description, either you yourself (for your own account) or the server admin (for the whole server) has to connect the bot manually. And posts from those who don’t do that simply won’t be seen by the bot.

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Evan Prodromou 3d ago

@johan We’d like to get it to global, but we’re doing it a step at a time.