@Friendica Support
TL;DR
Is it possible to use
BACKGROUND
hello
i have accounts on two small Friendica instances, this one & also @Droppie [farcebk] π¨βππ§βπ¦
being small, they both have, to be blunt, really lousy hashtag-fetching behaviour from the wider fediverse. given i follow a lot of tags [these are as important or maybe even more so, than simply following only personal accounts, for me], this ongoing lousiness poses a real threat for my two accounts having any prospect of being serious daily fediverse "homes" for me, given both instances miss out on a large proportion of posts / tags that i routinely see each day in my Masto & Sharkey accounts.
I have tried using
recently i became aware of
can anyone pls help me solve this?
cc: @Marek π¦πΊπ©πͺ @Friendly Koala @Droppie [infosec] π¨ β
#Friendica #FriendicaAU #farcebookspace #HashtagFetching #dropbearpooterising
TL;DR
Is it possible to use
FollowBackBot - _followback@tags.pub on Friendica instances?BACKGROUND
hello
i have accounts on two small Friendica instances, this one & also @Droppie [farcebk] π¨βππ§βπ¦
being small, they both have, to be blunt, really lousy hashtag-fetching behaviour from the wider fediverse. given i follow a lot of tags [these are as important or maybe even more so, than simply following only personal accounts, for me], this ongoing lousiness poses a real threat for my two accounts having any prospect of being serious daily fediverse "homes" for me, given both instances miss out on a large proportion of posts / tags that i routinely see each day in my Masto & Sharkey accounts.
I have tried using
relay.fedi.buzz follows, eg tag-firefoxnightly@relay.fedi.buzz on another of my friendica accounts, but tbh it's a PITA coz i cannot simply do it myself, but instead must explicitly request the instance owner to manually add them at the server level via terminal. that kills all spontaneity for me.recently i became aware of
FollowBackBot - _followback@tags.pub [read the whole thread if you want all the background; https://friendica.au/display/7c8d90bc-252d65d8d081ff63-cb0df0a1], but in none of my friendica accounts am i able to actually [strong][em]follow[/em][/strong] it. eg, in this current account, the pic below shows the failure:can anyone pls help me solve this?
cc: @Marek π¦πΊπ©πͺ @Friendly Koala @Droppie [infosec] π¨ β
#Friendica #FriendicaAU #farcebookspace #HashtagFetching #dropbearpooterising
Here's something really useful I've found.
One of the great things about the Fediverse is being able to follow hashtags.
But.
If someone puts up a post using that hashtag, and no-one on your instance follows that person or anyone who shares it, it won't appear in your feed.
This is particularly common if you're on a small or single-user instance.
Here's the solution.
First, follow @_followback
It will follow you back.
And then tags.pub bot then reshare all of your posts that use hashtags.
So if you do a post with the hashtag #Fediverse, then @fediverse will share your post.
Here's where the magic happens.
The tags.pub bot will do the same thing to everyone else who follows that followback account.
So if you follow @fediverse, then you'll get a feed of everyone who uses #Fediverse on the Fediverse.
And you'll see their posts even if no-one on your instance follows them.
And it works for all hashtags.
Just put the name of the hashtag, followed by @tags.pub
So @tech follows all posts using #tech, for example.
Or @news follows all posts using #news
#relay #relays #selfhosted #selfhosting #Mastodon #feditip #feditips #fedihelp
AJ Sadauskas
•Content warning: FollowBackBot in Friendica ?
In theory it means your posts aren't indexed by tags.pub, but it does fetch everyone else's posts with the #auspol hashtag.
Droppie
•Content warning: FollowBackBot in Friendica ?
hi & ta
sadly that's a nopey nope
here's the failure on Melissa's tiny instance:
here's the failure on the current tiny instance [even more broken, ffs]:
afaict from the struggles of the past few days with this, it just seems fundamentally incompatible with #friendica . i speak in utter technical ignorance of any of the actual code, but i feel, tbh, unsurprised at this when we consider that friendica is much older than masto, & these days many peeps falsely believe masto IS fedi... so maybe this new relay wotsit was written without any consideration of older platforms at all?
even if my guess is entirely wrong, the basic fact remains... seeking to make a home on a small friendica server, if one wants to follow lots of tags, is quite a miserable experience for me so far.
@#auspol @Friendly Koala @Marek π¦πΊπ©πͺ
Nearly Normal (=>Γ·)
•Content warning: FollowBackBot in Friendica ?
I have no idea whatsoever which means i should be your main adviser in this matter.
What would you like to be advised?
Michael πΊπ¦
•Matthias
•It also appears to be incompatible with other platforms. Tested with Misskey and Hubzilla.