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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 06:14:33 JST Evan Prodromou

   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 it doesn't work that way.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 06:16:02 JST Evan Prodromou

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     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.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 06:18:36 JST Evan Prodromou

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     #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/

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 06:24:35 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Sovereign Tech Agency

     That's why I insisted that it be an SWF priority. I was glad that we got funding from the @sovtechfund to build out the features and make it work correctly.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 06:24:36 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • bengo

     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.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 06:39:49 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Astro

     @astro You asked for a firehose, right? I'll open a ticket for it.

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     Astro (astro@c3d2.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 06:39:50 JST Astro

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     @evan Same for #FediBuzz. Sad the SWF never get back to me when I contacted them about it.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 06:43:59 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Astro

     @astro https://github.com/social-web-foundation/tags.pub/issues/39

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 06:46:24 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Astro

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

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 08:47:38 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Tom Casavant

     @tom we are working on a backend definition to make it easier to subscribe at the server level.

     https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications/issues/60

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     Tom Casavant (tom@tomkahe.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 08:47:39 JST Tom Casavant

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     @evan it'd be cool if each mastodon server shipped with a tagspub-like relay, and if you follow a tag on your server then your server would subscribe to the tag on all the servers it knows about