Evan Prodromou4d ago

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/

Show threadMax Lee4d ago
@evanprodromou How is this different from https://relay.fedi.buzz ?
#FediBuzz Relay

The buzzing ActivityPub relay service

Show threadEvan Prodromou
@the_moep Fedibuzz is great! It normally works as a relay, though. So, you have to be an admin to set it up. But I’ve recently found out you can also follow the accounts, like with tags.pub. So it’s similar in that way. I think it’s a big Fediverse and it’s good to have different services.
Mar 18 at 1:33amWeb
Show threadMax Lee3d ago
@evanprodromou Sorry, maybe this came out a bit more adveserial than it was meant. I was thinking more of actual technical differences between the services.