"Following a Hashtag" is too limited. A "filter channel" would be ideal.

[ghost]

Filter channels are very powerful. This is the twitter docs:

https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoTwitter#Filter_channels

IMO, the "Following a Hashtag" feature should be scrapped, and replaced with filter channels that work like the Twitter variation. You can list as many people or search terms as you want, and the search terms need not be hashtags.

Logical operators would also be useful. I might want to search for:

track:(#marchforourlives || #bluewave) && gun && control

for example.

[kensanata]

I removed these because I couldn't figure out how to get them to work. But if somebody feels like adding them back in, and documenting how they would work, that would be great.