I have just deployed a script and a mastodon bot which attempt to hashtag lemmy posts so that they are better discoverable in microblogging services.

Please check the README for the why and the how.

If you have a microblogging account, please consider following the bot account which will help its hashtags federate to your instance’s public timeline.

Many thanks to @[email protected] for hosting the bot.

PS: If you have a mastodon account, you can reply to your posts on mastodon (just search for their url) and add hashtags to your replies. This will achieve a quick and dirty version of what this bot is doing

  • db0OP
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    71 year ago

    I know. I am in those discussions and I linked to them on the readme, but I don’t feel the lemmy devs agree.

    • 0x1C3B00DA
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      71 year ago

      Sorry. Any brusqueness in my post was directed at the lemmy devs, not you. It seems like such an obvious feature. I think some people on the fediverse get into the mindset of recreating corporate silos one-to-one instead of building a cohesive fediverse that has way more functionality than any one network.

      • db0OP
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        51 year ago

        totally agree. Our strength is our unity.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      I think your proposal is reasonable. However it depends how exactly post tags will get implemented, which is still rather vague. I dont think it makes sense to implement federated hashtags before we have post tags in Lemmy figured out.

      In any case your tool looks very useful as a stopgap, and can help to test how hashtag federation can work in practice.