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?
If you’re looking for news, follow some of the accounts here, and there’s a spreadsheet of journalists on mastodon here.
Don’t rely on trending hashtags, it’s not a useful feature on mastodon.
Most are twitter mirroring bots, which means it's OK to follow but there will not be much engagement.
The ones in the spreadsheet aren’t just mirrors though.