@mattcropp @paregorios @Antanicus short answer, hashtags don't federate :) They only get distributed as any other post gets distributed; to followers and with boosts.

@zatnosk @Antanicus @mattcropp yeah so I follow the individual in question and the toots were public.

@zatnosk @Antanicus @paregorios so if I see a post in a #hashtag search from someone I don't follow, is it only because someone I follow boosted it? Or do I see the hashtags of people others on my instance follow, too?

@mattcropp @Antanicus @zatnosk

So, to be specific, compare the following two result sets, both in non-authenticated sessions:

https://social.coop/tags/beforemoderntimes

https://octodon.social/tags/beforemoderntimes

The second one shows all the posts that have been made (to my knowledge) with that hashtag. The social.coop one shows only those made by members of our instance. I follow everyone whose posts are shown in the octodon.social example and they follow me.

What's behind the difference?

@paregorios @zatnosk @mattcropp

cc. @cwebber

@paregorios @zatnosk @Antanicus what's especially weird is that the hashtagged toot from the person on the Mastodon.at instance *does* show up on both timelines, so we are getting hashtags from there, but not octodon.social specifically, which is strange...

@mattcropp @Antanicus @zatnosk

exactly

@mattcropp @Antanicus @zatnosk

To make matters even more interesting, mastodon.at knows about ours and theirs, but not about octodon.social's (i.e., same behavior as ours):

https://mastodon.at/tags/beforemoderntimes

So, maybe it's got something to do with what/how octodon.social shares.

Maybe @ekansa can find out who the admin(s) is/are there and chorus them into this discussion?

@paregorios @zatnosk @Antanicus @mattcropp

I don't see anything on our terms of conditions in our instance that would make an impact: https://octodon.social/about/more

Perhaps mastodon.at doesn't like octodon.social?

@ekansa

Can you put us in touch with an admin from octodon.social? I don't seem to be able to discover who that might be from the public-facing interfaces.

@mattcropp @Antanicus @zatnosk

@paregorios @zatnosk @Antanicus @mattcropp @ekansa The admin of octodon.social is @CobaltVelvet

@kensanata @paregorios @zatnosk @Antanicus @mattcropp @ekansa oh that's a long thread. hashtags only matter when in a public post (and not unlisted), and it likely does too in search, so that's usually the thing to check. hashtags should index toots as soon as they're received by your instance otherwise

@CobaltVelvet @kensanata @paregorios @zatnosk @Antanicus @mattcropp

Ah! interesting, and thanks! Tom, does this give a path forward on using hashtags for ancient/old stuff?

@kensanata @paregorios @zatnosk @Antanicus @mattcropp @CobaltVelvet

thanks for the intro!

@avoidstar

Welcome to a thread of befuddled noobs...

@paregorios and I have a question about the behavior of hashtags across instances. My posts don't seem to be showing up in the same way as others.

Am I doing something wrong or have some setting improperly configured?

Thanks!

@mattcropp @paregorios @Antanicus hashtag timelines are instance wide, so any hashtagged post know by your instance is shown in your instance's hashtag timeline.