I’ll be totally honest and say that I don’t trust Evan (for reasons I’m not getting into), and I’m not sure why we need “hashtags with extra steps,” but I’d like to get opinions from people who are smarter than I am about this stuff.
I’ll be totally honest and say that I don’t trust Evan (for reasons I’m not getting into), and I’m not sure why we need “hashtags with extra steps,” but I’d like to get opinions from people who are smarter than I am about this stuff.
This is an attempt to work around the lack of support for groups in Mastodon.
Anyone who wants tags.pub to be a thing should just use the threadiverse instead.
You can ping groups in mastodon to post to them.
It’s quite easy to flip this around: forcing topical discussion through groups are just a workaround for lack of proper discovery and aggregated search…
To give you one simple example: I get a lot more useful and meaningful interactions from following #emacs on mastodon than by waiting for people to find out and post to !emacs@programming.dev. Same thing for #nfl and !nfl@nfl.community or !nfl@a.gup.pe, etc.
What even happened to group support in Mastodon? Wasn’t that promised to be nearly finished and about to be released like some years ago?
I don’t know. Last I saw was a PR languishing for years.