Pushing Tags around the Fediverse

23 Jul, 2025

Hello Friends, Followers, and people I've yet to get to know on the Fediverse.

I'm looking for some help testing my latest initiative!

We are probably all familiar with hashtags. They are used everywhere these days to group articles and help searching. The Fediverse also has the hashtag feature.

However, one of the major problems is that the fediverse is distributed, so there's no central server of all posts. When you click on/search for a hashtag, your own server only shows posts it knows about. This could be a very small subset of the actual posts. Not ideal, as tags are great for discovering new posts.

I've joined some dots, and polished some crystals, to develop a service that will try to gather up posts from the popular servers and distribute them to you. I can't possibly push all the tags, but it would be great to get the popular ones.

I've been following the introduction tag as a great way of being told about new people as they announce themselves.

Read more here. If you are interested in helping test 'TagPush', please follow some tag accounts, or suggest tags to be included. I'm not down with the cool-kidz so don't know what the popular tags are.

This is especially great if you are on a smaller server, or a single-user setup. Those on the huge servers (like mastodon.social and other such beasts) will find TagPush of little use.

Thanks y'all.

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