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As a new user, I'm enjoying Mastodon's vibe so far but the one thing that is a letdown is the trending hashtags. I've been checking them regularly over the past couple of weeks and it seems like they're pretty much always like this.

Even on days with big news stories, people on Mastodon are only talking about what day of the week it is like company employees on some internal message board?

Is there anything that can be done to liven them up a bit?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Because there's no algorithm so most content avoids clickbait and is spread organically.

Also, Mastodon (and the Fediverse) tends to skew older, smarter, and more technically inclined.

Edit: https://hashtags.fyi/ has a lot more variety, though.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@cupcakezealot @aleph

"Also, Mastodon (and the Fediverse) tends to skew older, smarter, and more technically inclined."

Get off my lawn *grumbles* *cocks shotgun*

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you're saying I act like an old grumpy man but at a young age?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

...and we see the result of that, an incredibly boring community. No wonder so many people leave. Without an algo, it's simply awful. That's why Lemmy is already 10x more interesting with basic rating algo systems.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird. I have exactly the opposite experience with Mastodon. Without the algorithm it's been great. I get the content I look for instead of the content some ragebait-mongering corporate entity thinks I need to see so that I stick around and click their ads.

I get more useful and/or interesting content on Mastodon than I ever got on Twitter before I ditched it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would like to see your feed because after months of tweaking and following hash tags, my feed is still boring.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Define "boring" here? If you mean "as full of shitposts and memes as Twitter and/or Reddit" then yes, you're going to be bored on Mastodon. Since, however, I found those very posts boring as all shit on Twitter/Reddit, my feed suits me. A few hundred posts a day on topics that interest me, with about ... say ... 50% of them being somewhat insightful and/or thought-provoking. (The equivalent on Twitter was "however many posts the algorithm could shovel into my heap per day with about 0.01% of them being even slightly interesting". For Reddit it was so low I never bothered with an account.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean to each their own but I don't think it's boring.

But Lemmy and Mastodon are essentially the same thing in that they both make up the Fediverse.