I wrote a super simple bot that boosts anything from a hashtag. The poor man's group feature. github.com/Gargron/boost-bot

Vale@ganbara.nai @valerauko

@Gargron what would you use this for?

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@valerauko ambassador accounts. you can't follow an instance or a hashtag. but you could follow an account that boosts them

@Gargron how is that an improvement over pinning a hashtag's column?

@valerauko @Gargron If I understand the federation model correctly: it can help new accounts get their posts propagated to other instances.

Pinning a hashtag will miss any posts that belong to users on other instances who haven't been followed by someone on your instance.

@valerauko @Gargron Maybe we could make it so that the bot can boost more than one hashtag: I could not find any way to pin more than one hashtag in the same column. :-/