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You can embed Mastodon posts in your website or blog by doing the following:
1. Log in through your server's website
2. Go to the post or reply you want to embed and click on it to show it in an enlarged view
3. Click ⋯ on the post and select "Get Embed Code"
4. Copy-paste the HTML code into your website or blog
Lots of common questions answered about this at:
https://fedi.tips/how-to-embed-mastodon-posts-on-a-website
If you have problems embedding, see the article for suggestions.
p.s. UPDATED: It seems that there are bugs on this feature when trying to embed some posts that are on other servers.
I've reported this as a bug including examples of it happening, the report is at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34181
I'd mistakenly thought it was just mastodon.social with the problem, thanks to @Stefan_S_from_H for correcting me 
You can get a feed of the hashtag as RSS, then embed that.
You could do this by embedding the RSS feed of a hashtag on a particular server.
This would require your website or blog platform to have some kind of RSS embedding capability, or else you would have to add such a thing with an add-on or script.
About feed addresses, the RSS feed of #OwnCast on your server would be https://mastodon.social/tags/owncast.rss
@FediTips I don't get any HTML code.
Web, Mastodon version v4.4.0-nightly.2025-03-14-security
Your server mastodon.social runs experimental code, looks like it might have broken this feature... 
I will report this on the Github so they can fix it.
@FediTips sorry, ich habe mich eben auf die Website meiner Instanz eingeloggt und versucht, den Einbettungscode zu erhalten, bin aber kläglich gescheitert. Ich erhielt keinen Code, sondern nur den schnöden Hinwes „Post by Feditips auf Mastodon.“ (Siehe Screenshot)
@FediTips wahrscheinlich ist diese Funktion in dem neuesten Update der Mastodon Server Software eingeschränkt worden.
This feature seems to be broken on mastodon.social as it runs the experimental version of Mastodon's software. I will report this as a bug.
@FediTips Ich finde, dass jeder Nutzer selber einstellen können sollte, ob er eine Einbindung seiner Mastodon Beiträge auf anderen Websites außerhalb von Mastodon erlaubt. Vielleicht kannst du das auch melden.
This is a reasonable point but a separate issue, someone has already raised this at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/4883
@FediTips Prinzipiell wäre die Möglichkeit, #Mastodon Beiträge in Websiten und Blogs einzubinden, gut. Damit würde man Mastodon noch bekannter und alltäglicher machen machen. Das gleiche gilt für alle anderen Platformen im Fediverse #friendica #hubzilla #pixelfed
@FediTips Ich habe eben herausgefunden, dass man nur für Mastodon Posts des eigenen Accounts den Einbettungscode herunterladen kann, aber nicht für Mastodon Post fremder Accounts.
@FediTips It doesn't seem to have anything to do with nightly. It works on some posts and not on others.
I cannot get it to work on any posts on mastodon.social, they all have the same error.
However, it does work on all posts on my own instance which is running release.
@FediTips it uses the OEmbedSerializer class for the actual code.
It gets called here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/2f98134ac69ee840095c9d8389e4b2fff72f20c1/app/controllers/api/web/embeds_controller.rb#L12
There seems to be a problem with fetching it when it's not local.
But I'm no Rails or Mastodon guy. I give up at this point.
Oooh... weird. Thanks for that. Odd that it seems to be buggy so much more often on mastodon.social? 
I was picking lots of random posts and trying it, every post caused problems on m.s and not on release, so I assumed it was nightly...
EDIT: I've updated the issue with examples of where it happens.
@FediTips Is there a way to always show the newest post on my website? Probably not going to do it, but still interested.
Yes, if your website or blog has the ability to embed RSS feeds. The feed address of an account is its website address plus .rss on the end of the URL.
@FediTips I find this problematic: Today I embed a Toot in my website, tomorrow the content of the Toot is changed and my website shows something totally unrelated, or even contradicting.
In order to embed a Toot, I need a hardlink to a version which does not change anymore. Otherwise it's a screenshot for me, and a link to the Toot.
If you also boost the toot from your Mastodon account when you embed it on your site, you will be notified in Mastodon if the toot changes.
@FediTips This is a workaround, yes. I don't necessarily want to boost every Toot I include in a blog posting though, especially when the content is negative.
There have been enough news postings about embedded Tweets which later got edited and showed something completely different.
Appreciate the problem, just not sure how else it could be done
If you allow editing and embedding, then there will always need to be some kind of account involved to notify you about updates to the post.
(It's sort of similar to posting links on the web in general, the site you link to may change after you publish the link.)
@FediTips the difference being if I add a link, it's just that, a link. If I embed a Toot, the content becomes part of my website.
This was abused in the past, once Twitter allowed editing Tweets. One must be aware of that.
It's a fair point, it is indeed important to be aware of the risk. I added a section to the guide as a result of your reply.
@FediTips Thank you. I did not know this was possible. You could embed a post to the article as an example 
@FediTips what is the advantage of doing that instead of a screen shot of the post? I guess SEO but anything else.
There used to be the advantage of making the embedded post more interactive and accessible. Unfortunately it looks like they have removed these features 
Together with the unreported bug, wish I'd picked a different tip to feature today
Oh well, tomorrow is a new day...