**Eugen** @Gargron@mastodon.social · Mar 31, 2018, 13:03

**Eugen** @Gargron@mastodon.social · Mar 31, 2018, 13:03

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

**Vale@ganbara.nai** @valerauko@pawoo.net · Mar 31, 2018, 13:08

**Vale@ganbara.nai** @valerauko@pawoo.net · Mar 31, 2018, 13:08

@Gargron what would you use this for?

**Eugen** @Gargron@mastodon.social · Mar 31, 2018, 13:09

**Eugen** @Gargron@mastodon.social · Mar 31, 2018, 13:09

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

**Vale@ganbara.nai** @valerauko@pawoo.net · Mar 31, 2018, 13:11

**Vale@ganbara.nai** @valerauko@pawoo.net · Mar 31, 2018, 13:11

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

**Barry Peddycord III** @ishara · 2018-03-31T14:03:35Z

Barry Peddycord III @ishara

@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.