Post #3464273

2026-06-29 05:31 UTC

@ics@tau-ceti.space Seriously: I still don't understand it. You publish a public post under a hashtag. It gets propagated through your network on the Fediverse. Every person can subscribe to that hashtag and find your post in their feed. The bot only shares your post with people who would subscribe to the hashtag anyway but who want to miss out less.

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@ics@tau-ceti.space 2026-06-29 05:46

@mina@berlin.social The idea of Fedi is a human-interaction system, we do not expect our posts to be boosted by bots, especially not without prior consent. This is a bot-only system where bot-accounts are created automatically; there is zero interaction between the bot (and the bot owners) and the post's author. This system assumes that a major goal of posting is to have a large reach, but this ain't Twitter, this ain't Threads. Most people use hashtags as a search-help, not as an audience-reach tool. I have e.g. now switched to Followers Only-posts anymore, as I had enough of techbros like him arguing like this. I don't really want reach, I just know that there are people who watch some of the hashtags I post, that was the reason for using those hashtags at all. Now, no hashtags anymore because I can't know if another techbro comes around the corner doing whatever with my posts. There are tons of reasons why we love Fedi, and of which is that there is no algorithm and no automated system to gather reach.

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