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@FediTips I have a dumb question about following hashtags. If you are following a hashtag such as will you also see things posted with and or ?

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 😉

@lrreynolds @FediTips

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.

@ChuckMcManis @lrreynolds

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:

fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on

fedi.tipsHow to use groups on Mastodon and the Fediverse | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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@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 :/

@lrreynolds @FediTips @ChuckMcManis

meh, nevermind, it took 20 minutes of scrolling and reading to find them....