I have just deployed a script and a mastodon bot which attempt to hashtag lemmy posts so that they are better discoverable in microblogging services.
Please check the README for the why and the how.
If you have a microblogging account, please consider following the bot account which will help its hashtags federate to your instance’s public timeline.
Many thanks to @[email protected] for hosting the bot.
PS: If you have a mastodon account, you can reply to your posts on mastodon (just search for their url) and add hashtags to your replies. This will achieve a quick and dirty version of what this bot is doing
Unfortunately I just don’t have the mental bandwidth to pick up Rust atm. My hands are beyond full.
This shouldn’t really make any difference. In lemmy it would appear as a normal reply notification once per thread.
I’ll see if I can expand the bot, but I don’t want each reply to end up like a wall of text.
That would defeat the purpose, as the discovery from mastodon would happen days/weeks/months after that thread was active.