Native discovery of related tags (fedibuzz/tags.pub)

[julian@activitypub.space]

I was talking to my marketing guy about integrating a tags-based onboarding workflow for freshly installed forums.

The gist of it is, the forum admin adds a couple tags for the forum to globally follow, and achieves this via fedibuzz relay or tags.pub. Auto-categorization rules are automatically added and the forum starts receiving new (highly relevant!) posts through the magic of hashtag+federation

He then asked whether it was possible to suggest related tags (e.g. add guitar suggest acousticguitar, electricguitar, etc.) for the admin to also add, to which I replied in the negative “for now”.

But that got me thinking, is this something fedibuzz or tags.pub could achieve/offer in its API? It would require a bit of data analysis, to match up common hashtag usage, but doable maybe?

cc @evan [@evan@cosocial.ca](https://activitypub.space/user/evan%40cosocial.ca) @astro@c3d2.social