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Yep. The one major difference is you cannot "subscribe" to a hashtag. You can do a hashtag view, but it will be limited to all the toots on your server (which

Yep. The one major difference is you cannot "subscribe" to a hashtag. You can do a hashtag view, but it will be limited to all the toots on your server (which I believe includes all the toots people in other servers that folks on your server have subscribed to).

robswc 4y ago
Makes sense. I never really subscribed to hashtags in the first place. Always seem to be filled with spam. On twitter, I just follow a few interesting people and they'll usually tweet or retweet interesting stuff, so it works out.
- BeetleB 4y ago
  > I never really subscribed to hashtags in the first place. They're useful for limited, local current events. As an example, there was a sudden bush fire near my relative's house, and it was convenient to be able to track all the tweets tied to that hashtag to get the latest updates. For events like this, the local news media has only a tiny fraction of the (mis)information. You get a lot more (mis)information by following the hashtag.
luckylion 4y ago
Will that not become extremely resource-intensive once a server grows a bit and federates with other larger servers? E.g. you have 5000 users and they follow some other 50k users (each one following 10 people feels low, but I have no idea), you're now locally saving the twoots of 50000 users. And this is the same for every server, or is there kind of a synergy between federated servers?
- rolenthedeep 4y ago
  Yes. This is why mastodon.social does not have the federated timelines, and why the feature is totally absent from the official mobile apps. Eugen (who created mastodon) has been trying to ditch the feature, which I think is a huge mistake. Almost every other server keeps it on, because it's a great part of what makes the fediverse special
OscarCunningham 4y ago
You can subscribe to a hashtag in the newest version: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1
- BeetleB 4y ago
  There's a reason I put quotes around the word "subscribe". In current Mastodon, there is no subscribing of a hashtag - only searching. My belief is that in the newest version, you can subscribe, but it's still not global. Essentially it just saves you from doing an explicit search and adds it to your feed. So if someone posts a toot in some distant instance with a certain hashtag, it may still not show up in my feed.

robswc 4y ago

Makes sense. I never really subscribed to hashtags in the first place. Always seem to be filled with spam. On twitter, I just follow a few interesting people and they'll usually tweet or retweet interesting stuff, so it works out.

BeetleB 4y ago
> I never really subscribed to hashtags in the first place. They're useful for limited, local current events. As an example, there was a sudden bush fire near my relative's house, and it was convenient to be able to track all the tweets tied to that hashtag to get the latest updates. For events like this, the local news media has only a tiny fraction of the (mis)information. You get a lot more (mis)information by following the hashtag.

luckylion 4y ago

Will that not become extremely resource-intensive once a server grows a bit and federates with other larger servers? E.g. you have 5000 users and they follow some other 50k users (each one following 10 people feels low, but I have no idea), you're now locally saving the twoots of 50000 users. And this is the same for every server, or is there kind of a synergy between federated servers?

rolenthedeep 4y ago
Yes. This is why mastodon.social does not have the federated timelines, and why the feature is totally absent from the official mobile apps. Eugen (who created mastodon) has been trying to ditch the feature, which I think is a huge mistake. Almost every other server keeps it on, because it's a great part of what makes the fediverse special

OscarCunningham 4y ago

You can subscribe to a hashtag in the newest version: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1

BeetleB 4y ago
There's a reason I put quotes around the word "subscribe". In current Mastodon, there is no subscribing of a hashtag - only searching. My belief is that in the newest version, you can subscribe, but it's still not global. Essentially it just saves you from doing an explicit search and adds it to your feed. So if someone posts a toot in some distant instance with a certain hashtag, it may still not show up in my feed.