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#PSA: Y'all might want to block or defed tags.pub and tagpush.app domain, because they're bot-boosting anything with hashtags.

My recent underwear post has a boost for each hashtag on it, and fuck this bot using my AlicePics tag as a username to boost all my nudes.

People can already follow hashtags, we don't need an *opt-out* bot-swarm to make things more "discoverable".

I don't need *every* server to see my nudes. Just the ones who have my actual, human¹ followers on them.

Edit: the owner of tags.pub suggested we also block the rest of his domains: groups.pub, activitypub.bot, and onepage.pub 🤷🏼‍♀️

¹ and furry

#FediAdmins

tags.pub boosting my nude from three different accounts.
#psa #fediadmins
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⁂ L. Rhodes
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"We've also started the process of defining an interface to Mastodon so that following a hashtag on Mastodon taps into tags.pub…"

If you're concerned about how this service operates, you may want to weigh in here: github.com/mastodon/fediverse_…

(I will say that Prodromou was heavily involved in developing the fediverse from before that was even a word, so his voice can be pretty influential. Approach with caution.)


Global hashtag subscription server interface

tags.pub is a global hashtag server. It collects public data through a number of interfaces, and provides a followable ActivityPub actor for each tag. https://tags.pub/ There are a few other simila...
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⁂ L. Rhodes
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FWIW, it seems like they've taken a step to limit this behavior: socialwebfoundation.org/2026/0…

Unsubscribing tags.pub from Open Registration Relays

A relay server is a server that collects public content from many Fediverse servers and distributes it to the other servers. tags.pub , the global hashtag server run by the Social Web Foundation, c…
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⁂ L. Rhodes
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I didn't see that particular interaction, but my impression just from seeing how he posts and what initiatives he supports is that he sees the fediverse as tending toward a kind of global public square, rather than a set of distinct social spaces that have to decide how and when to overlap. When you start from that assumption, the sort of norms and affordances that make sense differ from those of the people who see things the other way.
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