Are you seeing posts in your timeline from accounts you aren't following?
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Try unfollowing the hashtag "cannabis" and see if the feddit posts about cannabis stop appearing in the future.
(It's possible that the feddit posts have got that particular hashtag within them, but in a form that Mastodon doesn't display. This used to happen with PeerTube videos too.)
@FediTips OK, I will try it. I unfollowed Cannabis and all the other hashtags related to this topic. I'll keep an eye on it.
But if it's the way you describe it with hashtags not contained but in a form that mastodon doesn't display, it's still a bug, isn't it?
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Try unfollowing the hashtag "cannabis" and see if the feddit posts about cannabis stop appearing in the future.
(It's possible that the feddit posts have got that particular hashtag within them, but in a form that Mastodon doesn't display. This used to happen with PeerTube videos too.)
@FediTips
In addition I just checked if I follow the group "(at)cannabis(at)feddit.org". But I don't.How can I find out if I follow any groups. Or how can I see which groups I follow?
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@FediTips OK, I will try it. I unfollowed Cannabis and all the other hashtags related to this topic. I'll keep an eye on it.
But if it's the way you describe it with hashtags not contained but in a form that mastodon doesn't display, it's still a bug, isn't it?
I've just tried searching for this post on mastodon.social which is running the latest experimental version of Mastodon. When the post is viewed there, it does have the "cannabis" hashtag.
I've attached a screenshot to show this.
I think your server is running an older version of Mastodon. When your server updates to the latest version, perhaps this will cause the hashtags to appear?
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@FediTips
In addition I just checked if I follow the group "(at)cannabis(at)feddit.org". But I don't.How can I find out if I follow any groups. Or how can I see which groups I follow?
They will look like normal accounts in your follow list, but will have a "group" label on their profile when viewed through your server's website.
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@FediTips
In addition I just checked if I follow the group "(at)cannabis(at)feddit.org". But I don't.How can I find out if I follow any groups. Or how can I see which groups I follow?
By the way, if this is being caused by hashtags then it may not be you who is following the group. If just one person on your server is following the group, then you will see group posts which have hashtags that you are following.
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I've just tried searching for this post on mastodon.social which is running the latest experimental version of Mastodon. When the post is viewed there, it does have the "cannabis" hashtag.
I've attached a screenshot to show this.
I think your server is running an older version of Mastodon. When your server updates to the latest version, perhaps this will cause the hashtags to appear?
@FediTips Wow, that’s strange. My clients (icecubeapps & Pachli) don’t show me a hashtag. When I look at the users post on my web interface I see the hashtag cannabis.
So that’s why it’s shown to me then. Fair enough. But should my clients show it to me as well? Usually I can see that a post is presented by a hashtag.
So the question is: Where the hell is the failure? 🤯 -
@FediTips Wow, that’s strange. My clients (icecubeapps & Pachli) don’t show me a hashtag. When I look at the users post on my web interface I see the hashtag cannabis.
So that’s why it’s shown to me then. Fair enough. But should my clients show it to me as well? Usually I can see that a post is presented by a hashtag.
So the question is: Where the hell is the failure? 🤯I'm guessing it is to do with Feddit being a non-Mastodon instance, so it perhaps presents hashtags in a slightly different way.
I'm not a dev so I'm not sure how the Mastodon API passes on information about non-Mastodon posts to apps, but perhaps those apps need some bug fixes to display tags in posts from Lemmy instances correctly?
Maybe @pachli and @IceCubesApp could comment?
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I'm guessing it is to do with Feddit being a non-Mastodon instance, so it perhaps presents hashtags in a slightly different way.
I'm not a dev so I'm not sure how the Mastodon API passes on information about non-Mastodon posts to apps, but perhaps those apps need some bug fixes to display tags in posts from Lemmy instances correctly?
Maybe @pachli and @IceCubesApp could comment?
@FediTips @geco_de @IceCubesApp
This is a Mastodon bug. I've just reported it as https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34319
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@FediTips @geco_de @IceCubesApp
This is a Mastodon bug. I've just reported it as https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34319
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@FediTips @geco_de Without feedback from @MastodonEngineering it's not clear what the proper fix is.
This might be a documentation bug, and clients are supposed to display all hashtags even if they are not in the content of the post.
Or, it might be a software bug, and Mastodon is supposed to remove additional hashtags provided by other software (e.g., Lemmy) if the hashtag doesn't appear in the content of the post.
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@FediTips @geco_de Without feedback from @MastodonEngineering it's not clear what the proper fix is.
This might be a documentation bug, and clients are supposed to display all hashtags even if they are not in the content of the post.
Or, it might be a software bug, and Mastodon is supposed to remove additional hashtags provided by other software (e.g., Lemmy) if the hashtag doesn't appear in the content of the post.
@pachli @geco_de @MastodonEngineering
These cross-platform bugs tend to be the trickiest to report as it's sometimes unclear which platform has the problem. Thanks for attempting, hope it bears fruit.
