#tagspub — Public Fediverse posts

OK, I did some debugging of #tagspub with #GoToSocial today. There were a couple of issues -- especially the unusual public key structure from GoToSocial, as noted here: https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/1186 . I loosened up our check for encryption keys enough to let these through.

Now, in a testing environment, I'm able to follow and unfollow hashtag bot accounts, and connect to the @_followback account. I think it's working pretty well -- I was able to see hashtags get shared.

If you use GTS, let me know!

@citc you wanted to know if #tagspub is applicable to #hubzilla. First answer: I think so. It should work with every Fediverse server. However, I don't know a lot about Hubzilla, including what features it has for following hashtags, if any. But in general, check https://tags.pub/#follow for the instructions.

Are you following a tags.pub bot for a hashtag?

#EvanPoll #poll #tagspub

Thanks to @coffee_nebula I now understand #TagsPub
"You don't see all posts with the hashtags you search for on Mastodon"
So I followed the instructions here: https://tags.pub/
@Urbanism
#Urbanism
@SolarPunk
#SolarPunk
@regeneration
#Regeneration
Now being followed.
Let's see what happens...
#Mastodon #Fediverse

Thanks to @coffee_nebula I now understand #TagsPub
"You don't see all posts with the hashtags you search for on Mastodon"
So I followed the instructions here: https://tags.pub/
@Urbanism
#Urbanism
@SolarPunk
#SolarPunk
@regeneration
#Regeneration
Now being followed.
Let's see what happens...
#Mastodon #Fediverse

Thanks to @coffee_nebula I now understand #TagsPub
"You don't see all posts with the hashtags you search for on Mastodon"
So I followed the instructions here: https://tags.pub/
@Urbanism
#Urbanism
@SolarPunk
#SolarPunk
@regeneration
#Regeneration
Now being followed.
Let's see what happens...
#Mastodon #Fediverse

Thanks to @coffee_nebula I now understand #TagsPub
"You don't see all posts with the hashtags you search for on Mastodon"
So I followed the instructions here: https://tags.pub/
@Urbanism
#Urbanism
@SolarPunk
#SolarPunk
@regeneration
#Regeneration
Now being followed.
Let's see what happens...
#Mastodon #Fediverse

Thanks to @coffee_nebula I now understand #TagsPub
"You don't see all posts with the hashtags you search for on Mastodon"
So I followed the instructions here: https://tags.pub/
@Urbanism
#Urbanism
@SolarPunk
#SolarPunk
@regeneration
#Regeneration
Now being followed.
Let's see what happens...
#Mastodon #Fediverse

My next #NetworkScience project is about scaling #tagspub.

If you follow a hashtag in Mastodon, the number of people that provide potential content to you is total number of people on your server plus the total number of unique people followed by everyone on your server.

If you follow a tags.pub account, the number if people that provide potential content to you is the total number of unique people that provide content to tags.pub -- through relays or the followback bot.

Up first on Day 3 of FediForum was @evan showing off tags.pub

#FediForum #FediForum2026 #TagsPub

Da gerade Unsicherheit herrscht:

Der Bot tags.pub kann auf Zuruf Accounts anlegen, die bestimmten Hashtags aus dem ganzen Fediverse boosten.

Wer etwa dem Account @meermittwoch folgen würde, bekäme alle Tröts mit diesem Hashtag #meermittwoch in die Timeline geboostet, auch die, die die eigene Instanz noch gar nicht kennt.

Es ist also eine gute Hilfe, wenn Interesse an bestimmten Hashtags besteht.

Ein Opt-out ist möglich.

Der Bot tut meines Wrachtens nichts Böses, er ist gerade für Leute auf kleinen Instanzen sinnvoll, die so mehr Tröts zu bestimmten Hashtags angezeigt bekommen.

Zugleich entdeckt eins so eventuell neue Accounts zum Folgen, auf die eins sonst nicht stoßen würde.

Eine Alternative ist relay.fedi.buzz mit Accounts wie @tag-meermittwoch , denen eins folgen kann. Es ist dasselbe Prinzip.

#tagspub #fedibuzz

Öka synbarheten i Fediversum med hjälp av tags.pub

https://fedinyheter.nyhetskartan.se/oka-synbarheten-i-fediversum-med-hjalp-av-tags-pub/

cc @evan relating to earlier #TagsPub discussion we had on the matter.

This bot is already combining logic, has multiple 'profle logic' tags. Dunno if "NoBots" is also already common protocol-decaying practice.

Maybe a solution might be that an #ActivityPub bot actor - OT: which I'd personally perhaps had chosen to be Application, not Service actors - would have a botFlags property. Simple to implement, and #FEP that.

More involved but also much more versatile might be a "Botiquette" as:Profile, or even a bots:Botiquette type, and a namespace to register them at, and where others may find what they mean and how they operate exactly.

#NoBots #nobot #fedi22 #NoTagsPub #Botiquette

cc @evan relating to earlier #TagsPub discussion we had on the matter.

This bot is already combining logic, has multiple 'profle logic' tags. Dunno if "NoBots" is also already common protocol-decaying practice.

Maybe a solution might be that an #ActivityPub bot actor - OT: which I'd personally perhaps had chosen to be Application, not Service actors - would have a botFlags property. Simple to implement, and #FEP that.

More involved but also much more versatile might be a "Botiquette" as:Profile, or even a bots:Botiquette type, and a namespace to register them at, and where others may find what they mean and how they operate exactly.

#NoBots #nobot #fedi22 #NoTagsPub #Botiquette

cc @evan relating to earlier #TagsPub discussion we had on the matter.

This bot is already combining logic, has multiple 'profle logic' tags. Dunno if "NoBots" is also already common protocol-decaying practice.

Maybe a solution might be that an #ActivityPub bot actor - OT: which I'd personally perhaps had chosen to be Application, not Service actors - would have a botFlags property. Simple to implement, and #FEP that.

More involved but also much more versatile might be a "Botiquette" as:Profile, or even a bots:Botiquette type, and a namespace to register them at, and where others may find what they mean and how they operate exactly.

#NoBots #nobot #fedi22 #NoTagsPub #Botiquette

cc @evan relating to earlier #TagsPub discussion we had on the matter.

This bot is already combining logic, has multiple 'profle logic' tags. Dunno if "NoBots" is also already common protocol-decaying practice.

Maybe a solution might be that an #ActivityPub bot actor - OT: which I'd personally perhaps had chosen to be Application, not Service actors - would have a botFlags property. Simple to implement, and #FEP that.

More involved but also much more versatile might be a "Botiquette" as:Profile, or even a bots:Botiquette type, and a namespace to register them at, and where others may find what they mean and how they operate exactly.

#NoBots #nobot #fedi22 #NoTagsPub #Botiquette

cc @evan relating to earlier #TagsPub discussion we had on the matter.

This bot is already combining logic, has multiple 'profle logic' tags. Dunno if "NoBots" is also already common protocol-decaying practice.

Maybe a solution might be that an #ActivityPub bot actor - OT: which I'd personally perhaps had chosen to be Application, not Service actors - would have a botFlags property. Simple to implement, and #FEP that.

More involved but also much more versatile might be a "Botiquette" as:Profile, or even a bots:Botiquette type, and a namespace to register them at, and where others may find what they mean and how they operate exactly.

#NoBots #nobot #fedi22 #NoTagsPub #Botiquette

I have been looking for places on the Fediverse where people publish (their own) fiction.

I am especially interested in Sci-Fi fiction, but....

Here is what I have discovered so far:

• #MicroFiction (hash-tag)
• @microfiction (tags.pub)

• #TootFic (hash-tag)
• @tootfic (tags.pub)

• #ContinueTheStory (hash-tag)
• @continuethestory (tags.pub)

• #ContinueTheSciFiStory (hash-tag)
• @continuethescifistory (tags.pub)

#Fiction #Guppe #SciFi #TagsPub

what is this tags.pub instance and should I block it
accounts from this instance boost my toots as soon as they are posted, the accounts that boost the posts have the same names as the hashtags used in the toot.

#fedihelp #fedi #tags #tagspub

@johnefrancis @evan I'm thinking it is borked. I'm only following a few of its tags and cannot recall seeing any boosts, but more importantly any tags I use are ignored by it.

#bork #tags #tagspub

@johnefrancis @evan I'm thinking it is borked. I'm only following a few of its tags and cannot recall seeing any boosts, but more importantly any tags I use are ignored by it.

#bork #tags #tagspub

@johnefrancis @evan I'm thinking it is borked. I'm only following a few of its tags and cannot recall seeing any boosts, but more importantly any tags I use are ignored by it.

#bork #tags #tagspub

@johnefrancis @evan I'm thinking it is borked. I'm only following a few of its tags and cannot recall seeing any boosts, but more importantly any tags I use are ignored by it.

#bork #tags #tagspub

@johnefrancis @evan I'm thinking it is borked. I'm only following a few of its tags and cannot recall seeing any boosts, but more importantly any tags I use are ignored by it.

#bork #tags #tagspub

Hello #tagspub people. Are you aware that @_followback doesn't read the Danish letters æøå? For example, I tried giving my post the hashtag #fælleshjerne (the Danish-language fedibrain) and it excluded the æ.

@evan

Seems to me this service already exists from other servers, eg. fedigroups.social - but that's a good thing, because sometimes these services go away (RIP gup.pe)

It also seems to me that this functionality could be built right into every instance software rather than as a standalone instance. We could use an indicator to differentiate regular #Hashtags from these newfangled federated !Groups...

@_followback

#TagsPub #FollowBack #EverythingOldIsNewAgain

I have added the ability to my #activitypub deployment to subscribe to https://tags.pub federated hashtags but even tho I’m subscribed to a bunch of tags I’m not getting any content.

🤔 something is wrong and an afternoon debugging this proved a few issues but now I’m not sure what else to investigate to make this work…

Currently my only working Hashtag explorer from the Fediverse is built on fetching public server API timelines and kind of grep Hashtags from a selection of public servers, this allows me to build a multi instance hashtag timeline, it’s nice but I really wanted to get tags.pub working.

🔗 https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/03/22/48fbd

Introducing tags.pub

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/