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@brooke of course. And you're someone sophisticated enough to actually look at the code and see that it ignores non-public posts, but not everyone can do that.

Since you have your own instance, you could also use the relay interface. It only sends public posts. https://tags.pub/#connect has the details.

@julian@activitypub.space yeah, i know 🥲
I have a lot of things I wanna do on Misskey/Sharkey - give me a few more months and this will be totally transformed =)
@evan@cosocial.ca

@julian @liaizon @cogdog I can't remember if Mastodon supports multi-typed actors. [Group, Service] would be reasonable!

@julian @liaizon @cogdog ok, I opened a ticket for this.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/38494

@sandwich on some servers, like mastodon.world, it's enabled by default. You can opt out by adding hashtag NoTagsPub to your bio.

@evan @wjmaggos @Castopod Super excited for this future (and possibly building a client for that as well)

@julian @liaizon Oh, actually, that's a much better fix than just hiding from a particular domain.

@julian @liaizon Julian, would that work for NodeBB too? I know I get notifications when activitypub.space shares my toots.

@julian @liaizon I'm pretty sure channel.org has service actors, and it does automated boosts.

@julian OK. I use a separate key ID and actor ID for HTTP Signature, so that can throw off some implementations.

@julian I commented on the ticket! Looks like we can both make some changes to make this more robust. I'm going to push and test today.

@wjmaggos I'm not sure of your question. You mean, is there a document about how hashtags work on the Fediverse? And a similar document about how user and content search works on the Fediverse?

@ufal the followback account? I've had a couple of notes on that. Can you add more info here?

https://github.com/social-web-foundation/tags.pub/issues/9

@mlanger @jakebrake @mayintoronto

You can definitely opt out of tags.pub! Nobody has to use it if they don't want to.

You can follow hashtags in Mastodon; many other servers on the Fediverse don't have that feature.

When you follow a hashtag in Mastodon, it only shows you content from people you follow, or from people who others on your instance follow. If someone posts on the Fediverse using a hashtag and nobody on your instance follows them, you won't see it.

@mlanger @jakebrake @mayintoronto you're right that there are very few followers for the hashtag accounts on tags.pub. We are just getting this service started.

We're actually pretty careful with bandwidth.
I am one of the authors of ActivityPub, and I wrote a programmer's guide for O'Reilly Media about the protocol. I try to use it as carefully as I can.

If nobody's following a hashtag account, no data gets delivered.