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.
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@virtuous_sloth @evan I'm asking what exactly I'm #holepunching by #following that bot so that tags dot pub can scoop up those #delicious #hashtags since my server didn't seem to be picked up before via any of the means #outlined on tags.pub
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@virtuous_sloth @evan it's boosting my #posts with #hashtags just fine, that's not what I was asking about
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And if you're interested in a hashtag, search for thathashtag at-symbol tags.pub in your Mastodon search UI and follow it there. It will boost all the content it finds with that tag to you.
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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.
@evan @_followback One post, 3 tags, 3 responses from tags.pub!
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@inarticulatequilter @evan It's the latter. If you search for it via mastodon.art, you should find this profile:
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@inarticulatequilter @evan It's the latter. If you search for it via mastodon.art, you should find this profile:
@katzentratschen thank you!
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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.
@evan@cosocial.ca Seems like vanilla Misskey is unable to fetch the profile for the mean time, but this idea is cool -
This gives me the heebie-jeebies. "Global" makes me uncomfortable. Automatic boosting makes me uncomfortable. Both are not particularly Fediverse-type concepts.
Here's the intro page on this (note that Social Web Foundation lists Meta and Auttomatic as partners):
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/
Sorry, Evan, but no thank you.
@jakebrake @evan @mayintoronto I'm with you. No thank you. People can follow hashtags. Nobody is following the accounts that are set up to echo hashtags. It's a waste of bandwidth.
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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.
@evan @_followback It worked perfect. My obscure hashtag showed up @cogdogcooltech
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@evan @mayintoronto how do you know which servers I've blocked personally? You cannot.
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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.
@evan Done
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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.
@evan Does this service work on "quiet public" posts as well as "public" posts?
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@evan Does this service work on "quiet public" posts as well as "public" posts?
@dubious_dragon I think so.
But I think they shouldn't; I added a bug report here:
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@evan Done
@adb thank you friend!
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@evan @_followback It worked perfect. My obscure hashtag showed up @cogdogcooltech
@cogdog awesome!
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@jakebrake @evan @mayintoronto I'm with you. No thank you. People can follow hashtags. Nobody is following the accounts that are set up to echo hashtags. It's a waste of bandwidth.
@mlanger @jakebrake @mayintoronto
You can definitely opt out of tags.pub! Nobody has to use it if they don't want to.
You can follow hashtags in Mastodon; many other servers on the Fediverse don't have that feature.
When you follow a hashtag in Mastodon, it only shows you content from people you follow, or from people who others on your instance follow. If someone posts on the Fediverse using a hashtag and nobody on your instance follows them, you won't see it.
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@mlanger @jakebrake @mayintoronto
You can definitely opt out of tags.pub! Nobody has to use it if they don't want to.
You can follow hashtags in Mastodon; many other servers on the Fediverse don't have that feature.
When you follow a hashtag in Mastodon, it only shows you content from people you follow, or from people who others on your instance follow. If someone posts on the Fediverse using a hashtag and nobody on your instance follows them, you won't see it.
@mlanger @jakebrake @mayintoronto you're right that there are very few followers for the hashtag accounts on tags.pub. We are just getting this service started.
We're actually pretty careful with bandwidth.
I am one of the authors of ActivityPub, and I wrote a programmer's guide for O'Reilly Media about the protocol. I try to use it as carefully as I can.If nobody's following a hashtag account, no data gets delivered.
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@evan@cosocial.ca Seems like vanilla Misskey is unable to fetch the profile for the mean time, but this idea is cool
@ufal the followback account? I've had a couple of notes on that. Can you add more info here?
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@ufal the followback account? I've had a couple of notes on that. Can you add more info here?
@evan@cosocial.ca Sure, will do!
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