I have added the ability to my #activitypub deployment to subscribe to https://tags.pub federated hashtags but even tho I’m subscribed to a bunch of tags I’m not getting any content.

I have added the ability to my #activitypub deployment to subscribe to https://tags.pub federated hashtags but even tho I’m subscribed to a bunch of tags I’m not getting any content.

something is wrong and an afternoon debugging this proved a few issues but now I’m not sure what else to investigate to make this work…

Currently my only working Hashtag explorer from the Fediverse is built on fetching public server API timelines and kind of grep Hashtags from a selection of public servers, this allows me to build a multi instance hashtag timeline, it’s nice but I really wanted to get tags.pub working.

https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/03/22/48fbd

@rick I think it's more likely not something on your end, but that tags.pub is very new and doesn't have enough content coming in yet, not enough to get stuff out to you?

Paging @evan

@rick@rmendes.net yup as @jaz@toot.wales said, likely it's a lack of content issue. Maybe @evan can suggest a few more popular tags?

I could, but I know we had some problems with Fedify already. I'm going to try setting up a test server to see what's going on.