One hard thing about building #tagspub is that people get mad that it is needed. A lot of Mastodon users think that following a hashtag on Mastodon gets you *all* of the content tagged with that hashtag from the entire Fediverse. When they read https://tags.pub/#why , or I tell them, they get mad that Mastodon doesn't work that way. But it couldn't! Your server doesn't have access to all that data.
tags.pub

But #SWF want it to work better, too! We think access to fresh content relevant to your interests is one of the things that gets people excited about the Fediverse. That's why we built #tagspub to begin with.

#tagspub was one of the first #ActivityPub projects, which I built as a POC. It was one of the implementations that showed interoperability when ActivityPub was still being standardized.

https://activitypub.rocks/implementation-report/

ActivityPub Rocks!

When I first set up my own Mastodon server at https://prodromou.pub/ a few years ago, my friend @bengo noted that we still didn't have global hashtag servers. "You have to get tags.pub back online so I can follow tags!" I'd honestly forgotten about the project before he reminded me.
Prodromou.pub

Family server

Mastodon hosted on prodromou.pub
That's why I insisted that it be an SWF priority. I was glad that we got a contract from the @sovtechfund to build out the features and make it work correctly.
@evan Same for #FediBuzz. Sad the SWF never get back to me when I contacted them about it.
@astro You asked for a firehose, right? I'll open a ticket for it.
Issue · social-web-foundation/tags.pub

Global hashtag server. Contribute to social-web-foundation/tags.pub development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@astro I just found your message from when we first launched SWF. I'm sorry I didn't reply!