[Request]: Show followed hashtags about tuba HOT 3 OPEN

Hi, I saw that my patch was mentioned here.

I have submitted a pull request for the patch now at the following link.

mastodon/mastodon#28874

I have no idea if the pull request will be accepted or not, though, as I am not a part of the core team.

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TBH, I'd rather the API improved on that than do it myself. Here's how it works:

Every post has a tags property that includes are the tags found in the post, e.g.

{
	"tags": [
		{
			"name": "gnome",
			"url": "https://tech.lgbt/tags/gnome"
		},
		{
			"name": "test",
			"url": "https://tech.lgbt/tags/test"
		}
	]
}

What Mastodon and other software that have API compat should do is to provide another property on each tag, following : Bool, so it would become, for my account at least:

{
	"tags": [
		{
			"name": "gnome",
			"url": "https://tech.lgbt/tags/gnome",
			"following": true
		},
		{
			"name": "test",
			"url": "https://tech.lgbt/tags/test"
		}
	]
}

This is being tracked on Mastodon's issue tracker FWIW mastodon/mastodon#19528 and a working patch in the comments does exactly what I described above

The way some clients do it right now is by keeping track of followed hashtags themselves. My issue with that is mainly syncing. Both the initial sync between app restarts AND while the app is running. Picture this, you have Tuba running on your desktop and you decide to open Mastodon on your mobile phone. You follow a hashtag from there and suddenly when you get back to your desktop, there's a new post at the top of your timeline by someone using the hashtag you just followed and you are left confused as to why it's in your timeline and why Tuba doesn't show that it's because of the hashtag you are following - which is something you know it does

A solution would be to GET the user's hashtags every so often so they sync but honestly idk if it's worth it

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Waiting for the fix in Mastodon's API seems reasonable, thanks for explaining!

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