Evan Prodromou1d ago

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

Show threadEd Wiebe23h ago

@evan I had questions. What is tags.pub? Why would I want it to boost my posts?

https://tags.pub explains most of it. Presumably someone has to pay for this. Is it just altruism?

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Show threadEvan Prodromou

@edwiebe So, do you still have questions after reading the home page?

It's a project of the Social Web Foundation. We're a non-profit with the goal of making the Fediverse easier to use. We think that if tagged content connects more Fediverse servers, it makes our conversations better and people's experience here richer.

Development and maintenance of tags.pub is sponsored by a grant from the Sovereign Tech Agency.

Mar 28 at 5:53pmWeb
Show threadEd Wiebe23h ago
@evan Honestly, the past decade of social media and, well, everything, has made me very suspicious. The home page explains a lot but the link to the Foundation is very far down at the bottom of the page and without actually clicking it tells me nothing.
Show threadEvan Prodromou22h ago
@edwiebe So, what you're looking for is more information about SWF, earlier in the page? I can do that. I added an issue here: https://github.com/social-web-foundation/tags.pub/issues/15
More information about SWF earlier in the tags.pub home page · Issue #15 · social-web-foundation/tags.pub

Suspicious user asked to know who's providing this service and why. Found the SWF link in the privacy section, but expected more information sooner.

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Show threadEd Wiebe18h ago
@evan Yes, it’s difficult for a naive mastodon user to understand this. At first it looked like the kind of scam one seems in the spam folder, SEO, buy likes, kind of stuff. I immediately wondered. I did notice your instance name and recognized it as a very unlikely source of spam. Most of the info on the about page is helpful but still I think doesn’t provide what naive users need to understand what this is about. Obviously, I hope, these are my opinions.
Show threadghosttie15h ago
@evan @edwiebe I think it needs to explain how hashtags work in Mastodon and what this adds, because I don't think most people know that
Show threadEvan Prodromou15h ago

@ghosttie @edwiebe great, thanks.

https://github.com/social-web-foundation/tags.pub/issues/16

Explain why this is needed · Issue #16 · social-web-foundation/tags.pub

Explain why this is different than following a hashtag in Mastodon.

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