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@FediTips I have a dumb question about following hashtags. If you are following a hashtag such as #Ukraine will you also see things posted with #UkraineWarMap and or #RussianUkraineWar ?
In other words does following a root word help you see any compound hashtags that contain that word?
I didn’t see that covered in the explainer but maybe I am blind 
No, you will have to follow all three. It would be "interesting" (meaning complex and error prone) to allow fractional hashtag following.
Also even when you follow a hashtag you don't necessarily see all posts *of* that hashtag, in part because your server may not be federating with a server where a user is using that hashtag.
This is also challenging.
You can solve the federation thing by following a group as well as a hashtag. Groups federate all of their posts to everyone that follows them, no matter what server they are on:
@FediTips @ChuckMcManis this is interesting but you need to discover the group and then understand how to follow it.
Hashtags seem way easier for new users to understand as a means of discovering interesting content. Too bad they seem limited in their effectiveness…
For Guppe at least, you can create a group by just mentioning it, just like with hashtags.
Of course this doesn't mean everyone is following the same group or hashtag, but it's a similar situation.