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  • Jun 28, 2026, 12:21 PM

    @DJGummikuh

    "This also is an issue exclusive to the Fediverse - no centralized SoMe actually has this problem family"

    If the issue is "material shared in a particular context is transmitted onward into a different context without asking", then I disagree it's exclusive to Fedi - I've seen that area conceptualised and navigated on Twitter as well. Examples:

    • People asking "Okay to retweet?" - not because they legally _had_ to ask, but out of sensitivity to whether the OP _wanted_ their post shared further. Often used for posts where a personal anecdote was shared and other people find it especially illuminating.

    • Quote-tweets being used to focus attention on a tweet - widely considered an affordance which can be used for good or evil :-)

    Or are you thinking of a _different_ issue?

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  • Jun 28, 2026, 12:35 PM

    @unchartedworlds no, that's the point, I'm talking about a COMPLETELY different issue. Due to the federated, non-centralized nature of ActivityPub, if I'm on a single-user instance, and I post a message e.g. under the generic hashtag "linux", even if you follow the linux hashtag, you WILL not see my post unless your server and my server are federated. With this bot server, it would be (presumably, still trying to find out) enough that your server knows the bot server to find my original post.

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  • Jun 28, 2026, 12:36 PM

    @unchartedworlds so this bot activity serves a purpose that not necessarily has any gain for the bot per se, it just simplifies populating otherwise non-federated instances to each other. This bot is NOT an aggregator bot "follow my bot instead the artist to get a digest of content"

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  • Jun 28, 2026, 12:37 PM

    @unchartedworlds I'm uncertain (as I can't seem to find a definitive answer to that yet) if you even have to follow any account on the bot instance at all or if it is sufficient for your instance to have a single user to follow ANY account on the bot instance to allow you to find hashtag content on any OTHER instance the bot instance has crawled

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