Mastodon Hashtag

You followed a hashtag in Mastodon expecting to see all new public posts with that tag in your home feed, but the timeline remains empty or shows only sporadic entries. This issue occurs because Mastodon’s hashtag follow feature relies on the instance’s full-text search index and federation timing, not on real-time streaming. This article explains … Read more

When you follow a hashtag on Mastodon, you expect to see public posts using that tag from across the entire fediverse. Instead, your home feed shows only posts from your local instance. This behavior is not a bug but a deliberate design choice tied to how Mastodon handles federated visibility and timeline filtering. This article … Read more