Mastodawn

Friends, if you haven't already, it would be a big favour to me if you could enable tags.pub to boost your public tagged posts.

Just search for @_followback in your Mastodon UI. Click the follow button there. (Don't try to follow from the profile page; it doesn't work yet.)

It will follow you back, and when you make a post with a hashtag in it, the server will boost your post from the appropriate hashtag.

#tagspub #hashtags #activitypub

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May Likes Toronto 1d ago

@evan Is there a reason to do this when we can already follow hashtags?

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Evan Prodromou 1d ago

@mayintoronto one reason is because your friend Evan asked you to do it as a favour.

Another reason is that when you "follow" a hashtag in Mastodon, it only filters the content that got to your server for other reasons.

There are three ways that content arrived: either you follow the author, someone else on your server follows the author, or your server is subscribed to a relay.

tags.pub lets you follow a hashtag globally, not just filter what got to your server.

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Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦1d ago

@evan @mayintoronto This description sounds like following a tags.pub via hashtag is even more limited as it only gets tags from people who’ve opted into tags.pub.

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Evan Prodromou

@Chigaze @mayintoronto Yes, it's still in its early stages, but the architecture is made so it can handle more and more content over time. The system is opt-in for individuals, but servers and whole platforms can opt in, also.