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@tml Hi, I'm Evan Prodromou, one of the coauthors of ActivityPub and the Research Director of Social Web Foundation.

You can follow hashtags in Mastodon, it's true. But that only shows tagged content that was delivered to your server for another reason: you follow the author, someone else on your server follows the author, you use a relay, replies, boosts.

Small servers don't get much tagged content; even larger servers don't get all of it!