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?

  • PixelPassport@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The worst is the “good night” posts, I find it so cringey.

    Posts like: “Can’t keep these sleepy eyes open, sweet dreams everyone”. It seems like mastodon is for people that love small talk.

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      1 year ago

      It‘s kinda why I never warmed up to Twitter, it feels more focused on everyone posting their random thoughts on daily life and building up some public persona.

      Anyway, I do enjoy their comments sometimes showing up in threads around here so it‘s not all bad.

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        1 year ago

        It’s funny how you can often tell a comment came from Mastodon because the way people type is just different somehow

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        1 year ago

        Yeah same, it feels like being in a group chat with strangers. I’m glad it’s an option for those that want it though.

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      1 year ago

      To be fair, I’ve seen so many like them on Twitter

      And every morning (or like at 5-6 am when I was going to bed), the (not personalized) Germany trends were full of stuff like “Good morning”, “Hello”, and the names of individual people.

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      That really synthetises why I dislike microblogging so much: It’s a bunch of people throwing small-talk and rage bait everywhere, all the time.

      Considering a lot of people are really bad at conservation in every possible way, it also makes sense why microblogging is so much more popular than forum-like platforms.