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@julian We apparently agree that expecting us to follow bot accounts to see hashtags is absurd. But that's how it looks to me.

Are you saying that this is under the hood stuff and we are not expected to follow bot accounts? That somehow these accounts will transparently deliver the hashtags we follow? If so, it's a huge mistake to notify users that an instantly created bot account has boosted a post.

And again, I think the bigger problem is hashtag abuse. I hope someone is working on that.

@julian @mlanger I don't actually think it's an ugly hack.

In ActivityPub world, things that you follow remotely are actors. They can be people, groups, organizations, bots, even other things like documents or places.

For following a hashtag remotely, I think it should look like any other actor on the network.