@Friendly Koala @Marek 🇦🇺🇩🇪 @AJ Sadauskas @FollowBackBot today i have mucked about some more with this, & now have formed a tentative conclusion that this service is not compatible with friendica.

the essential first step is to

FollowBackBot

Follow me and I will follow you back. Your public posts will then be boosted through tags.pub. Unfollow me, and the boosts will stop

but afaict the #friendica GUI simply provides no facility to DO that initial Follow of this service. i tested in #FirefoxNightly, #Floorp, & Vivaldi.

in Masto, per pic below, searching for that tag does generate the standard Masto Follow Hashtag button.

otoh by contrast, in friendica a completely different page ensues, per next pic, which has NO button or any other way obvious to me, to actually DO the Follow.

alas, it seems i still have no good way so far to expand the reach of hashtag-fetching across fedi, in a small friendica instance.