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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?
If you have any specific hobbies / fandoms / communities you're interested in, you could see if there are instances specific to those interests you could migrate your account to. The local feed and local hashtags are sometimes way more interesting if you're on an instance you jive with.
Kinda curious to what kind of content you expect to see more in Mastodon. The little I've looked at some instances, I've thought "so this is what a saner twitter looks like", which I agree, looks boring.
Then again, I've always found the idea of twitter boring. Too much noise
Oh man, you weren't kidding.
No egos, rage bait or dumbasses.
Sometimes I miss that though. I remember seeing a tweet a while back that said something to the effect of "twitter is boring until the unemployed people wake up at noon and start their shit". Unfortunately, it looks like everyone on mastodon is a normal employed adult, which isn't as fun.
You don’t want to see some thick trunks on Tuesdays?
is there a specific type of content you want? you can try following 'groups' instead of hashtags
the benefit of groups over hashtags is that you see posts from profiles that have not yet federated with your specific server since the group itself boots anything that is posted to it, so you can sometimes see things that hashtags miss
here is a website explaining it a bit more:
https://a.gup.pe/
to follow a group simply put whatever you want to follow before @a.gup.pe like so:
[email protected]
Pretty much my experience.
For a long while, before the twitter implosion, hardly anyone used them at all. My thought is it just never caught on for the most part. With the ability to follow tags now and more twitter migratees it seems to be more common to see them but still doesn't seem as much of a standard practice as with other sites.
Probably lack of marketing. It just is what it is. If you want to see what the latest #dance is or #icebucketchallenge, that's probably on TikTok, Instagram, or Twitter...it's easier for influencers to monetize their content.
I actually use an ad blocker to block that section on the instance I use. "Trending" anything is of zero interest to me on any platform. It's anti-interesting when it's on a platform whose selling point is hand-curation.
Speaking of dullness why isn't there a like, comment or retweet counter? Just started trying to check out Mastodon.