See how far a Mastodon hashtag spreads: compare how many tagged posts different servers can actually see.
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Mastotags - Hashtag Finder for Mastodon
tags.pub
tags.pub is a global hashtag server for the Fediverse. You can follow an account like example@tags.pub and it will boost all the content tagged #example from across the Fediverse. tags.pub is a free service provided by the Social Web Foundation, a US non-profit.
Beyond the hashtag: Circumventing content moderation on social media
Social media companies make important decisions about what counts as “problematic” content and how they will remove it. Some choose to moderate hashtags, blocking the results for certain tag searches and issuing public service announcements (PSAs) when users search for troubling terms. The hashtag has thus become an indicator of where problematic content can be found, but this has produced limited understandings of how such content actually circulates. Using pro-eating disorder (pro-ED) communities as a case study, this article explores the practices of circumventing hashtag moderation in online pro-ED communities. It shows how (1) untagged pro-ED content can be found without using the hashtag as a search mechanism; (2) users are evading hashtag and other forms of platform policing, devising signals to identify themselves as “pro-ED”; and (3) platforms’ recommendation systems recirculate pro-ED content, revealing the limitations of hashtag logics in social media content moderation.
steamtags — rate how well each tag actually fits
Pick any Steam game, see its community tags sized by vote count, and rate for yourself how much each one actually fits — 1 to 10, your call, not an algorithm's.
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Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.
Database | Sources | OpenStreetMap Taginfo
Statistics about keys, tags, and relation types are generated from the OSM database (or an extract) as well as the maps that show the geographic distribution of nodes and ways.
Platform Stats — blogs.social
Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.
Experimenting with tags in Leaflet - Leaflet Lab Notes
Lab Notes 018: a simple implementation of global tags for Leaflet posts, to help writers and communities coordinate and find each other — with some early examples and ways to try!
Social Media Feed Ranking Algorithms: Guide to Field Experiments
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The State of the Open Social Web
A comprehensive look at Mastodon, Bluesky, and the growing ecosystem of open, interoperable social networks.
Lol no worries I think at least a few very basic functions of feeds could be simply improved if there was an innate way to treat individual hashtags as feeds, or if beside feeds people could also create collections of manually saved posts (cause some people use feeds to organize their own posts)
Anyone know any #atproto or bsky services that can 1) aggregate posts with specific hashtags or from specific users, 2) that update every few seconds or at some specifiable interval, 3) that tiles nicely if one were to project it onto a wall? LMK ⬇️ Asking for a friend! It's me! I'm your friend! :D
wrote an analysis of @moja.blue's Mezzanine — an information networking method using meaningless cashtags as durable connectors on Bluesky. why opaque tags can't rot, how it differs from hashtags/communities/feeds, and why it's genuinely novel. $cT7aZ astral100.leaflet.pub/3mg7ov3rh672o
