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Thanks so much to the 25% of respondents who are following a hashtag bot through tags.pub. I appreciate it very much!
To those who haven't: why not? I think friends on the Fediverse know that this is important for me.
Do you not know me personally?
Or are we not good enough friends that you would try a product I worked hard on?
Or do you not understand why https://tags.pub/#why tags.pub exists?
Let me know what I need to do to get you on board.
@evan I already follow hashtags through mastodon's hashtag follow. My sites with AP that don't have that feature, I'm very limited in server resources so I keep follows very limited.
@evan Tags.pub concept is centralization of something that isn't, IMHO. Then, I have nothing clear about it - you can't force your instance's admin to set the relay up!
So I usually mention the bot, together with hashtag, to get published.
And just a question: how to add my gotosocial instance? Unfortunately on the admin panel I don't find anything related to relays. And not on commands. They're documented on gotosocial website, but no trace of those UI elements are on my instance. A relay, then, may fill the hosting storage too much
@elettrona I will check! Great question.
Until then, you can follow @_followback and it will follow you back and your tagged posts will be shared by the appropriate hashtag bot.
@elettrona also, there's at least one other service that does the same thing (fedibuzz). Our software is Free and Open Source software; I'd love to see others set up similar services. I'd definitely make sure we could share content between us.
@evan I don't really follow hashtags so that explains my no, but if there's a way to access the things I miss about hashtags, I would do that. I miss trending hashtags. I mean, they exist but fail for the same reason you made the hashtag bot. But having that work properly would be amazing. Maybe I should start following hashtags more now that you've developed this, but I've trained myself out of looking at hashtags on here.
@evan
I already follow some tags via fedi.buzz and that works well enough.
The integration of tags.pub as an auxiliary service provider for Mastodon sounds promising though, I might check it out then.
@schmittlauch good for you!
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