While looking for posts with the #degoogle hastag with my mastodon account, I realized that mixed in the hastag timeline there were posts to the !degoogle@lemmy.ml community, but not containing the hastag itself in the text.

I tried to look around, but In wasn't able to find an explanation of how this is supposed to work: is it because of the name of the community that is the same of the hastag? Or is or because the hastag is "embedded" in the community itself?

Edit: for those interested, the explanation is in this comment -> https://lemmy.world/post/39083486/20606028

My timeline on the hastag #degoogle showing a post from @degoogle@lemmy.ml community and a random microblogging post that actually contains the hastag itself

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[–] tamlyn@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

if you open the post you see the hashtag, i don't know how it works, but a community post it's name as hashtag with every post.

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[–] lgsp@feddit.it [S] 1 point 11 months ago

Ok, this makes sense, and I had no idea it was like this

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