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submitted 1 year ago by aleph@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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[-] mojo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

yeah sounds like boring shit. I get that already from talking to actual people, not virtue signalling boomers on mastodon

the lack of algo reduces the quality of content to this garbage, but this is the same people who think more content is bad as well. I don't want some breaking or interesting post to be hidden by some random person posting completely meaningless garbage

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

You sound like you might enjoy TikTok more.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's either useless boring small talk on Mastodon, or zoomer tik tok. Absolutely no middle.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

*useless only if you have no interests. There's plenty of people talking hobbies and interests. If you're just shooting shit, I agree, it's boring. And no, there's no middle. Maybe Instagram is the middleground?

[-] tootytootwoo@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

The amount of people on Mastodon who are like "ahh finally, nothing interesting to look at now that I left Twitter, I am at peace and can just scroll through pictures of someone's dinner and obscure academic naval gazing :)" is so high

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It's boring and shitty. It's hard to find interesting stuff. Good luck finding trending/newsworthy events.

[-] noodlejetski@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago

you get from Mastodon what you put into it.

this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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