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

@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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@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.

@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
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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