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Hashtags not populating? (lemmy.codecompost.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi,

I ran an instance of Mastodon end of last year but took it down a moth later.

Now I'm getting back into Mastodon with a new instance, this time running it from Docker.

The last time I ran my Mastodon instance, I pretty much got an e-mail every day to approve new trending hashtags.

Now in my new instance, I got one email and approved one hashtag (#introduction), but since then I have gotten no emails. Also the trending hashtags list is empty. I checked the postgres database and the tags table is full of records.

Am I missing something here? Or should I wait a couple more days?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In order for your server to find hashtags to match, someone on your server needs to follow the person who posted the hashtag. That's typically how it gets pulled into your Federation feed. That can be tough on your own personal server.

You can fix that with relays. Rather than subscribe to a massive generic relay that adds hundreds of servers' posts to my own server, I use https://relay.fedi.buzz

There, I created dozens of hashtag-based relays. I made a relay for every hashtag I want in my own feeds. And then I also made slightly broader-topic relays -- or topics I only want to browse sometimes -- to add more stuff to my Federation feed when I was bored.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah thanks! I've now done the same, just added a whole bunch of relays.