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<div class="article-body"> <p>Read it in other languages: <a href="https://hackers.pub/@fedidevkr/2026/fediverse-social-web-track-at-coscup-2026-cfp-ja" rel="nofollow">日本語</a> (Japanese), <a href="https://hackers.pub/@fedidevkr/2026/fediverse-social-web-track-at-coscup-2026-cfp-ko" rel="nofollow">한국어</a> (Korean).</p><p><a href="https://fedidev.kr/en/" rel="nofollow">FediDev KR</a> and <a href="https://fedilug.y-zu.org/" rel="nofollow">FediLUG</a> (Japan) are pleased to announce the Fediverse &amp; Social Web track at COSCUP 2026, and invite participants to submit proposals for talks.</p><p><a href="https://coscup.org/" rel="nofollow">COSCUP</a> (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters) is a free, community-run open source conference held annually in Taipei, Taiwan. Think FOSDEM, but in East Asia. This year it takes place August 8–9 at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and is co-hosted with UbuCon Asia 2026.</p><p>The Fediverse &amp; Social Web track runs for a full day, six hours in total. It is the first dedicated fediverse track at a major open source conference in East Asia, and we hope it becomes a regular gathering point for the fediverse community in the region.</p><p>Format </p><p>The default talk length is 30 minutes. If you need more or less time, note your preferred length when submitting.</p><p>Topics </p><p>We welcome proposals on anything related to the fediverse and the open social web, including:</p><p>Implementations of ActivityPub or related protocols<br>Clients for ActivityPub-enabled software<br>Libraries, toolkits, and frameworks for fediverse development<br>Supporting services: search, onboarding, moderation tooling<br>Instance administration and operations<br>Governance, policy, and the social dimensions of running federated communities<br>The broader open social web and interoperability</p><p>Important dates </p><p>Submission opens: March 28, 2026<br>Submission deadline: May 9, 2026 (AoE)<br>Acceptance notifications: June 9, 2026<br>Conference: August 8–9, 2026</p><p>Submissions </p><p>Submit proposals at <a href="https://pretalx.coscup.org/coscup-2026/cfp" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pretalx.coscup.org/coscup-2026/cfp"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pretalx.coscup.org/coscup-2026</span><span class="invisible">/cfp</span></a>. Select Fediverse &amp; Social Web from the track dropdown.</p><p>You can write your proposal in English or Chinese. COSCUP publishes session descriptions bilingually in English and Chinese, but that translation happens after acceptance; you don&#x27;t need to provide both languages when submitting.</p><p>All sessions will be recorded and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. If your talk contains material that cannot be recorded or released under those terms, please note this in your submission.</p><p>Code of conduct </p><p>All speakers and attendees are expected to follow the <a href="https://hackmd.io/@coscup/cococo-en" rel="nofollow">COSCUP Code of Conduct</a>.</p><p>Contact </p><p>Questions about the track, topics, or the fediverse in general are welcome at <a href="mailto:contact@fedidev.kr" rel="nofollow">contact@fedidev.kr</a> or <a href="https://hackers.pub/@fedidevkr" rel="nofollow">@fedidevkr</a> on the fediverse.</p> </div>

<div class="article-body"> <p><a href="https://tags.pub/" rel="nofollow">tags.pub</a> is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server — it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There’s lots of information on the <a href="https://tags.pub/" rel="nofollow">tags.pub home page</a>, and I (Evan) did <a href="https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/WNDQUQ-tags-pub/" rel="nofollow">a talk about tags.pub</a> at FOSDEM 2026. This blog post answers some basics about tags.pub.</p><p>To follow a hashtag globally, search for a user with that name at tags.pub, like <span class="h-card"><a href="{&#x27;type&#x27;: &#x27;Link&#x27;, &#x27;href&#x27;: &#x27;https://tags.pub/profile/example&#x27;, &#x27;mediaType&#x27;: &#x27;text/html&#x27;}" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>example</span></a></span> for the <a href="/tags/example/" rel="tag">#example</a> hashtag. Follow that account, and it will share all the content it sees with that hashtag to you. If you unfollow the account, it should stop sharing to you. The usernames only have letters and numbers in them, and they only go up to 64 characters.<br>To share your content with tags.pub, search for and follow the <span class="h-card"><a href="{&#x27;type&#x27;: &#x27;Link&#x27;, &#x27;href&#x27;: &#x27;https://tags.pub/profile/_followback&#x27;, &#x27;mediaType&#x27;: &#x27;text/html&#x27;}" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>_followback</span></a></span> account. It will follow you back (thus the name) and your public posts will be shared by the hashtag accounts on tags.pub. If you unfollow the follow back account, it will unfollow you back, and your content will no longer be shared.<br>You can connect a whole server to tags.pub by using the <a href="https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ae0c/fep-ae0c.md" rel="nofollow">relay interface</a>. Add <a href="https://tags.pub/user/_____relay_____/inbox" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="tags.pub/user/_____relay_____/inbox"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tags.pub/user/_____relay_____/</span><span class="invisible">inbox</span></a> (Mastodon) or <a href="https://tags.pub/user/_____relay_____" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>tags.pub/user/_____relay_____</a> (Pleroma) to your server relays. This is a one-way pipe — your server will send public posts to tags.pub, but tags.pub won’t send all its public data back to you. Instead, your users should follow hashtag accounts to get specific feeds.<br>We respect your agency. If your server is connected to tags.pub and you don’t want it to boost your content, add <a href="/tags/notagspub/" rel="tag">#NoTagsPub</a> to your bio. If you already have <a href="/tags/nobots/" rel="tag">#NoBots</a>, that should be plenty. You’ll still be able to follow tags.pub hashtag accounts. If you don’t want to see or be seen by tags.pub at all, you can block the domain ‘tags.pub’ entirely.<br>Becoming the ‘global’ hashtag server is a goal. We are still ramping up, and there are a lot of people and servers that are not yet connected.<br>tags.pub will not share your content with accounts or servers that you have blocked. It only shares the link to your content, so your block will be respected.<br>tags.pub is developed and operated by <a href="https://tags.pub/" rel="nofollow">Social Web Foundation</a>. We are a US non-profit. The servers are located in Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada in a data centre run by <a href="https://www.ovhcloud.com/" rel="nofollow">OVHCloud</a>, a French corporation. We try to keep the data storage to the absolute minimum necessary to provide the hashtag sharing service. There is no search index, and we don’t archive your content. The <a href="https://github.com/social-web-foundation/tags.pub" rel="nofollow">code</a> is Free and Open Source software under the AGPL-v3.<br>If you have a feature request, or a bug report, please add a <a href="https://github.com/social-web-foundation/tags.pub/issues" rel="nofollow">GitHub issue</a>. If you have a private comment or question, please <a href="https://socialwebfoundation.org/contact/" rel="nofollow">use our contact form</a>.</p> </div>