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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] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

ive noticed hashtags are not very popular likely due to them being overdone.

like lemmy, your mastadon exp is highly dependent upon your instance.

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

I don't know, but to me this isn't really dull. I wonder if it is matched with actual current events? Like, for example, if an earthquake, #earthquake and similar hashtags will show on trending section

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

Here in kbin you have to know the whole long address

The @ of the person do you want to follow

The full @ of the mastodon server

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

oh my god I can't fucking believe the gaslighters on this thread trying to counterargument an obvious truth

[–] CombatWombatEsq 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There totally is -- you could toot a bunch about the stuff you want to see on the platform!

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

I'm doing that already.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] is an account that hosts #HashtagGames everyday. It's quite fun activity.

[–] WidowsFavoriteSon -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good god. The number of people whining on this thread that Mastodon is solo boringggg.

Its not.

You are.

Within 2 weeks there,I had my feed filled with news intelligent hot takes and links to cool blog thought pieces. Without the snark and baitshit that was most of twitter.

Get a grip. Learn what a hashtag is.

jesus

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

Yeah I have a lot of people that I follow that provide me news, cool tech, black history, furry fun times, art, and just sillyness. Maybe the tags aren't what OP wants, but the idea is that they should then search tags that they DO want regardless if "popular"

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