Evan Prodromou on Nostr: One hard thing about building #tagspub is that people get mad that it is needed. A ...
One hard thing about building #tagspub is that people get mad that it is needed. A lot of Mastodon users think that following a hashtag on Mastodon gets you *all* of the content tagged with that hashtag from the entire Fediverse. When they read
https://tags.pub/#why , or I tell them, they get mad that it doesn't work that way.
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2026-05-26 21:13:25 UTCEvent JSON
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