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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?
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.
ive noticed hashtags are not very popular likely due to them being overdone.
like lemmy, your mastadon exp is highly dependent upon your instance.
Speaking of dullness why isn't there a like, comment or retweet counter? Just started trying to check out Mastodon.
there is, idk what's going on in your end
Are you signed in to an instance, or viewing without signing in? Apparently (and this may be a case by case situation), those stats aren't shown when one isn't signed in.
I can see them when signed in & I've clicked on a post though, mainly the favorites (likes) & boosts (retweets), whereas comment counts are sorta visible before clicking a post to view replies. I say sorta as if a post has multiple replies it just shows as reply icon 1+ instead of the exact count.
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
oh my god I can't fucking believe the gaslighters on this thread trying to counterargument an obvious truth
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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
There totally is -- you could toot a bunch about the stuff you want to see on the platform!
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
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"