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!Friendica Support Maybe a thoroughly stupid question: If in #Friendica I search for a hashtag and say "follow" on that, what exactly does that mean? It does appear in my "saved searches", but does it also mean posts with these tags will automatically appear in my default timelines even for posts coming from accounts I don't follow......?
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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@Kristian Yes, this is the purpose of following tags.
@Kristian

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Gaysis
Gaysis  
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@Kristian I don't think any questions about Fediverse are stupid :-)
I also don't know this, I haven't even understood the difference between categories and hashtags.
@Kristian
Kristian
Kristian  
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@Angela Solothurnmann 🙂️ It felt a bit ... weird asking this, actually, because I'm usually telling people that Friendica supports this but noticed I never really tried or checked how it does work. 😁️
@Gaysis
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@Angela Solothurnmann Tags are public, categories are private to you.
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Gaysis
Gaysis  
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@Hypolite Petovan I was confused because it seems while writing a post I can only add categories, and have to add tags after the post is already published (which results in automatic comments added for every tag, which costs me time because I think those comments are pointless and delete them)
@Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@Angela Solothurnmann Tags are mainly added to your own posts with regular hashmark notation like this: #hashtag

The posts you mention are meant to add tags to other people's posts where you had no access to the body.
#hashtag @Gaysis

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