Global tags and content discovery

julian @julian@activitypub.space

<p>There are a couple of parallel development efforts tackling the problem of hashtags. The main drawback is that while you can use them in your posts and search for them to find additional content, the reach and visibility of the hashtag is restricted to that of the instance's own visibility.</p> <p>In other words, looking up a hashtag on your instance probably would not give you a complete view of the use of that hashtag worldwide.</p> <ol> <li><a href="https://newsmast.social/@newsmast">@<bdi>newsmast@newsmast.social</bdi></a> channels <ul> [...]</ul></li></ol>

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