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Oh wow... looks like the hashtag following feature for Mastodon is already being tested on some servers!
If you're on mastodon.online (and I assume mastodon.social) you should see a hashtag following icon in the top right corner of hashtag searches.
Can confirm it works 
I followed the hashtag "caturday", and just seen a "caturday" post appear in my home timeline from someone I don't follow.
So, it seems to show any public post with that tag that is visible to your server.
The feature hasn't been released yet, the reason it's on mastodon.online is because the server is owned by the developers and they often test features on there before full release.
@maffsie Ooooh! Can we have this?
@meredith i’ll look into this and see if it’s either in a released version of masto or safe to cherry-pick from dev, but i remember the early days when queer.party (like all other instances at the time) tracked the github main branch and am not keen to return 
@maffsie Absolutely fair! I'd love to follow a couple of hashtags but not if it's a lot of work for you. I'm just grateful to be here.
@feditips Oh man, that's exciting :D
Looking forward to widespread release
@feditips
A special thank you to all developers!
The feature-hashtag-follow-web branch has already been into main.
@feditips it's long been on Mastodon.Social as something I relied on a lot. I have about 6 or 7 hashtags that show up any posts globally for things I'm interested in. I have one column dedicated to that as a feed. It's perfect for discovery.
Yes, in the advanced web interface you could set up a column where you follow tags
This is a bit different though, it is available on the default single column interface and it mixes posts into the main feed.
Also, there's no restriction on how many tags you follow, I think the separate column version restricts it to a certain limit?
@feditips Ah understand the difference then. I don't see any limit for the column one, but yes is separate one. Column also has "all of" and "none of" options for tags, with a toggle for Local Only, too.
But yes such features make a massive difference for discoverability and following interests. Nice that new one integrates it into one feed.