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Question: why mastodon hastag timeline shows posts from lemmy community of same name? (feddit.it)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

Thanks for making this thread, I didn't really realize it worked this way either!

When I've posted to lemmy from mastodon, you "@" the community, treating it like a user which is interesting. The underlying guts of the fediverse are fascinating lol

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