@alice@lgbtqia.space @evan@cosocial.ca
I spent too much time reading the thread, so my opinion on the matter:
I dont understand the personal hashtag concept. If it is personal - and one-to-one relationship to the owner account, why not follow the account directly?
And what confuses me is that hashtags are public by nature. No one owns them, and no one is prohibited from doing anything with them. If, according to Evan, tags.pub respect user's blocklist, I am questioning even a consent is required here. Because nothing (except ethical concerns) stops anyone from hijacking "your" hashtags.
To my understanding, the issue here is when people opt in to the relays, they don't know that bots like tags.pub also *reuse* this consent. So, this is not an informed consent; but again, if it is even needed for hashtags, that to me is not clear.