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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[–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

it's a setting for the particular community

No, not really. The devs made it an automatic one. Not ones you can manually assign to a community.

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