Evan ProdromouMar 28

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 threadMay Likes TorontoMar 28
@evan Is there a reason to do this when we can already follow hashtags?
Show threadEvan ProdromouMar 28

@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.

Show threadStefan Monnier3d ago
@evan @mayintoronto Of course the centralization aspect is a bit worrisome, but another aspect might be interesting here if you decentralize it. It would allow to disambiguate tags, e.g. #[email protected] vs #[email protected] vs #[email protected]
Show threadEvan Prodromou
@monnier @mayintoronto we have three tag-following services right now, and tags.pub is free and open source software, so it's possible to have more. I'd really support that.
Apr 2 at 12:55pmWeb