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   Frank Heijkamp (alterelefant@mastodontech.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 21:15:10 JST Frank Heijkamp

   • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

   @evan
   I can just follow hashtags. Why do I need a third party bot for that?

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 21:15:05 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     • Mike Fraser

     @alterelefant @mike

     We have a FAQ for this!

     https://tags.pub/#why

     You don't get all the content when you follow a hashtag through Mastodon, especially on small and medium-sized servers.

     Please let me know if you have other questions!

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     Mike Fraser (mike@thecanadian.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 21:15:08 JST Mike Fraser

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @alterelefant @evan This was my thought. On pachli I can organize multiple followed hashtags into feed. Not sure why I need this tool.

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     Frank Heijkamp (alterelefant@mastodontech.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 21:15:08 JST Frank Heijkamp

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     • Mike Fraser
     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @mike
     I never felt the need for a tool, but maybe I am now missing out on a third-party harvesting the hashtags I follow?
     @evan

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 21:16:42 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     • Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)

     @alterelefant @beandev

     What do you mean by "federated", here?

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     Frank Heijkamp (alterelefant@mastodontech.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 21:16:44 JST Frank Heijkamp

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     • Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)
     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @beandev
     When two instances are not federated it is indeed expected and by design for posts to not show up.
     @evan

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     Frank Heijkamp (alterelefant@mastodontech.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 21:16:45 JST Frank Heijkamp

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     • Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)
     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @beandev
     The real reason I don't see any of the posts is probably due the fact that both instances are not federated. Same reason why replies to my posts don't show up on mastodon.mallegolhansen.com
     @evan

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     Aljoscha Rittner (beandev) (beandev@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 21:16:47 JST Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @alterelefant
     For the same reason you didn't see the same question several hours ago 😅

     https://mastodon.mallegolhansen.com/@philip/116530251563105515

     @evan

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 21:28:01 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     • Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)

     @alterelefant @beandev that's a great point! The big thing to know is that tags.pub respects blocks both ways.

     If your server blocks another server, the content shared by tags.pub from that server will not appear in your timeline.

     And vice versa; stuff you post will not appear in the timeline of users on a server you blocked.

     I hope that helps.

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     Frank Heijkamp (alterelefant@mastodontech.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 21:28:02 JST Frank Heijkamp

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     • Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)
     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @beandev
     The point I was trying to get across is that my key worrie is if this service is able to successfully identify and filter out rogue instances and spam bots? Or will bad actors be able to freely spam massive numbers of subscribers to this service like we see hashtags spam on the centralized social media platforms like the death bird site and blues ky?
     @evan

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     Aljoscha Rittner (beandev) (beandev@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 21:28:04 JST Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @alterelefant
     Maybe you don't get my point.

     My original response referred to the FAQ explaining why the service exists. And your question about why one shouldn’t just use hashtag-follow has been asked before—ironically, that’s the very technical reason why the tag service exists in the first place.

     That’s all I wanted to say.

     You don’t have to use the service if you don’t like it.

     @evan

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     Frank Heijkamp (alterelefant@mastodontech.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 21:28:05 JST Frank Heijkamp

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     • Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)
     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @beandev
     The thing here is that there is a difference between instances that have never been federated with the instance my account is on and instances that have been defederated by that instance. The end result is however the same. Posts won't be shown and there is probably a reason for not showing posts of unfederated or defederated instances. It keeps out spam bots and rogue instances.
     @evan

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     Aljoscha Rittner (beandev) (beandev@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2026 21:28:06 JST Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @alterelefant
     That's by design, but not everyone expects it. And sometimes people want information from sources they can't access or aren't familiar with.
     @evan

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 08-May-2026 05:53:17 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     • Mike Fraser
     • Almino :autism:

     @almino @alterelefant @mike Thank you!

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     Almino :autism: (almino@ursal.zone)'s status on Friday, 08-May-2026 05:53:18 JST Almino :autism:

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     • Mike Fraser
     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @evan @alterelefant @mike now that I know you are involved in this project, I will follow it.