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What’s the point with the bots on the tags.pub instance? There apparently is one for each hashtag in the Fediverse that has had even some low degree of use? In what way does it work better to follow some foobar@tags.pub account instead of just following the #foobar tag directly? Is there even some malicious intent?

The bots all have the same boilerplate profile: ”Follow me if you're interested in the #foobar hashtag. I'm a global hashtag sharing bot from tags.pub. When content with the #foobar hashtag appears on the Social Web, this account will re-share the content to its followers.”