Post #3456356
2026-06-28 21:49 UTC
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@LiamGilmartin@mastodon.ie 2026-06-28 21:57
@riverpunk@defcon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space @evan@cosocial.ca @blogpost@tagpush.app People who join smaller instances understand that their posts are public in principle, but also understand that in practice their posts won't often propagate across the entire fediverse without other humans reading them and boosting them. That's the way I like it, so if someone decides to create an artificial mechanism that alters that dynamic then it's - to say the very least - discourteous to do so using my stuff without asking if I want that to happen.
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@riverpunk@defcon.social 2026-06-28 23:43
@LiamGilmartin@mastodon.ie Before responding, I wanna say that I agree that tags.pub is in the wrong here. However, I think your analysis is off. Nothing I've seen so far seems to indicate that tags.pub is pushing things to people who didn't follow them. The whole thing is that you have to follow tags.pub to see what they boost. They still boost your own content of course, but it's not for an unwilling audience. So like, either there's a meaningful difference between tags.pub and tagpush.app, or else they're both in the wrong. I'm trying to work out what the difference is, because I get a lot of my posts boosted by the tagpush.app bots, and I've never heard anyone else complain about this. And to be clear, this isn't a gotcha or a whataboutism. I genuinely am just curious if we're either overlooking the existing bots, or if there's a meaningful difference. @alice@lgbtqia.space @blogpost@tagpush.app