#tagspub Timeline

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#tagspub is doing about 50-100 shares per minute at this point. It's cool to see the variety of content and sources coming through.

I'd like to see more Mastodon servers set it up as a relay, though. See https://tags.pub/ for instructions.

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I just want to say thank you to all the server admins and Fediverse users who have enabled #tagspub sharing. Everyday I'm seeing more and more interesting posts coming through the service, and it's because people like you are knitting the Fediverse network more tightly together.

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So, I am on a medium-small instance. I don't see everything that happens on the Fediverse. In particular, I don't see every conversation about https://tags.pub/ .

If you see a conversation or questions about #tagspub and you don't think the author would mind, please feel free to tag me in. I'm not awake 24/7 and even when I am awake I'm sometimes doing other things, but I'd really appreciate the chance to answer people's questions or concerns.

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It's interesting reading the nodeinfo for #tagspub. We've seen ~320,000 hashtags over the last 3 month. Of those, 182,000 have been used in the last 30 days. The rest? I don't know. Honestly, it seems like an awful lot of hashtags! #serverstats

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I cleaned up some of the error codes in #tagspub. I was being overprecise about missing headers needed for HTTP Signature -- returning 400 instead of 401 status. They were important specifically for checking the signature, so I changed them to 401. I also fixed a bug where keys that return 410 Gone were causing a 500 error in tags.pub. I changed that to 401, too -- it's not a valid signature if the key is missing. That seems to have helped also!

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I want to share a workaround for Mastodon users who get boosted by #tagspub bots but don't want the notifications: you can't yet turn off bot notifications in Mastodon, but you can filter notifications from people who don't follow you. This will catch all the tags.pub bots -- they don't follow anyone.

Screenshot of the Mastodon notifications control screen, showing the controls to change the filtering of notifications from people who don't follow you

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Thanks to everyone who's connected their servers or personal accounts to #tagspub to share tagged content with the Fediverse. As of tonight, there are 5,456 servers with users whose content has been shared by a tags.pub hashtag bot -- about 1.86M total shares.

If you haven't yet, please check out https://tags.pub/#connect to connect your account or your server.

And if you don't understand why we need tags.pub, see https://tags.pub/#why !

#HashtagsAreAwesome #TagTheFediverse

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I am OVER THE MOON excited to see that #Mastodon now has a filtering option for notifications from bots. It's working spotlessly from a build of Mastodon 4.6 from today. This means that people using servers with #tagspub as a relay can opt out of getting boost notifications from tagbots but still keep sharing their content and still keep getting boost notifications from people. Thanks 🙏🏼 to the @Mastodon team for including this feature; it goes a long way to making tags.pub work for everyone.

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I am OVER THE MOON excited to see that #Mastodon now has a filtering option for notifications from bots. It's working spotlessly from a build of Mastodon 4.6 from today (Here's a screencast of me demoing the feature). This means that people using servers with #tagspub as a relay can opt out of getting boost notifications from tagbots but still keep sharing their content and still keep getting boost notifications from people. Thanks 🙏🏼 to the <a rel="mention" class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon">@Mastodon</a> team for including […]

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tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server -- it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There's lots of information on the tags.pub home page, and I (Evan) did a talk about tags.pub at FOSDEM 2026. This blog post answers some basics about tags.pub. To follow a hashtag globally, search for a user with that name at tags.pub, like <a rel="mention" class="u-url mention" href="https://tags.pub/user/example">@example</a> for the #example hashtag. Follow that account, and it will share all the […]

tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server — it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There’s lots of information on the tags.pub home page, and I (Evan) did a talk about tags.pub at FOSDEM 2026. This blog post answers some basics about tags.pub.

To follow a hashtag globally, search for a user with that name at tags.pub, like @example for the #example hashtag. Follow that account, and it will share all the content it sees with that hashtag to you. If you unfollow the account, it should stop sharing to you. The usernames only have letters and numbers in them, and they only go up to 64 characters.
To share your content with tags.pub, search for and follow the @_followback account. It will follow you back (thus the name) and your public posts will be shared by the hashtag accounts on tags.pub. If you unfollow the follow back account, it will unfollow you back, and your content will no longer be shared.
You can connect a whole server to tags.pub by using the relay interface. Add https://tags.pub/user/_____relay_____/inbox (Mastodon) or https://tags.pub/user/_____relay_____ (Pleroma) to your server relays. This is a one-way pipe — your server will send public posts to tags.pub, but tags.pub won’t send all its public data back to you. Instead, your users should follow hashtag accounts to get specific feeds.
We respect your agency. If your server is connected to tags.pub and you don’t want it to boost your content, add #NoTagsPub to your bio. If you already have #NoBots, that should be plenty. You’ll still be able to follow tags.pub hashtag accounts. If you don’t want to see or be seen by tags.pub at all, you can block the domain ‘tags.pub’ entirely.
Becoming the ‘global’ hashtag server is a goal. We are still ramping up, and there are a lot of people and servers that are not yet connected.
tags.pub will not share your content with accounts or servers that you have blocked. It only shares the link to your content, so your block will be respected.
tags.pub is developed and operated by Social Web Foundation. We are a US non-profit. The servers are located in Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada in a data centre run by OVHCloud, a French corporation. We try to keep the data storage to the absolute minimum necessary to provide the hashtag sharing service. There is no search index, and we don’t archive your content. The code is Free and Open Source software under the AGPL-v3.
If you have a feature request, or a bug report, please add a GitHub issue. If you have a private comment or question, please use our contact form.

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Friends, if you haven't already, it would be a big favour to me if you could enable tags.pub to boost your public tagged posts.

Just search for @_followback in your Mastodon UI. Click the follow button there. (Don't try to follow from the profile page; it doesn't work yet.)

It will follow you back, and when you make a post with a hashtag in it, the server will boost your post from the appropriate hashtag.

#tagspub #hashtags #activitypub

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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

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I just pushed an update to #tagspub . Some changes:

- Added a profile avatar based on https://thenounproject.com/icon/tag-2028454/ by https://thenounproject.com/creator/gurupurnima4/ at https://thenounproject.com/
- Added a more detailed profile description, included a disclaimer on endorsement or association
- Added a section on why tags.pub is needed to https://tags.pub/#why . One of the most common questions I get!