Am I overreacting? The server @tags.pub takes every of my toots that contain any hashtag, and boost it using an account that has the name of said hashtag.
If I want to follow a hashtag, there is native feature for that within mastodon / activity pub. So my knee jerk reaction is that this is some shady click harvesting. Or?
@MichalBryxi fair enough to block it if you want, I suspect it's intent is that people on smaller servers would follow the tags because reachability is a bit rubbish in smaller corners of the fediverse.
There used to be another thing which you could @ with your tag/thing instead and that'd flow through to people but alas, discovery was an issue again.
@MichalBryxi also they provide a means to opt-out, add #NoBots to your bio (which to be fair, if you don't want automated stuff is a pretty common thing - most well ran ones respect that so may have other upside for you)
Michal Bryxí
AlexIf your server is providing data to tags.pub, and you don't want your content to be boosted by tags.pub accounts, you can add the #NoTagsPub hashtag to your account bio. (If you've already got a #NoBots hashtag in your account bio, we'll also skip any boosts.)
I find this habit of creating magic profile hashtags to be a real bad practice, especially when modeling opt-outs in app-specific manner. cc @evan
@[email protected] who says fediverse accounts need to be people?
I'd love to have a fedi account for every book in my local public library
Fascinating idea! And stuff like this is going to spark many more..
Would you Follow the book in order to see when it’s back on the shelf?
@[email protected] at minimum, tagging it would show up as a comment under the page.
Follow it for updates (yeah, for distribution status), maybe DM it or send it Offer to put it on hold 😝
> who says fediverse accounts need to be people?
Certainly not me. I'm thinking on an actor-based service-oriented fedi, which more closely represents actor model. Where the social network is a pure social graph of addressible actors, that can be introspected for the services they provide.
Yes, a book might be an actor, as well as the shelf :)
@[email protected] the shelf? Why not one for every member of the Dewey Decimal System 🤯
I mean, I just did every search query as an actor.. and this isn’t much different.
Every *potential* number is ready to go, and just gets a db entry (and actual behavior) once someone interacts with it.
SFO Museum has joined the “Fediverse”. We have begun to operate a series of automated “bot” accounts that are published using the ActivityPub protocols which can be subscribed to from any client, like Mastodon, that supports those standards. These are automated, low-frequency, accounts and they currently only support a limited set of interactions: Accounts can be followed or unfollowed, individual posts can be “liked”, “boosted” or replied to but those replies will not be answered (yet) or published on the SFO Museum websites. To get started we’ve created three “groups” of accounts: Things which have happened recently involving the SFO Museum Aviation Collection; Things which have happened in the terminals (new and old) and; Things from the collection which are related to flights in and out of SFO.
@julian @benpate @[email protected]
I didn't. Looks like a great read. Thanks!
🫧 socialcoding..
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Ben Pate 🤘🏻
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