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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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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 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.

[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years 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.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

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