@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 @lrreynolds
when I tried to look into a few of these, they seemed like placeholder accounts or the content wasn't on topic..
Is this still a work in progress?
@RueNahcMohr @FediTips @ChuckMcManis not sure what you are referring to? What accounts are you talking about?
@lrreynolds @FediTips @ChuckMcManis
Two I thought might be interesting were transformers and ... anyhow the other one had no posts. transformers had no transformers :/
@RueNahcMohr @FediTips @ChuckMcManis ???? what accounts exactly are you referring to?
@lrreynolds @FediTips @ChuckMcManis
meh, nevermind, it took 20 minutes of scrolling and reading to find them....