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DJGummikuhDJGummikuh@mastodon.social
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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DJGummikuhDJGummikuh@mastodon.social
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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DJGummikuhDJGummikuh@mastodon.social
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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Jennifer Moore 😷unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
Jun 28, 2026, 1:51 PM
@DJGummikuh
Oh right, yes I see what you mean - the challenge of successfully federating.
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