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?

  • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    This is so bizarre. Who is going around putting #tuesday or #wednesday on their posts? They want to capture the audience that wants to read more about what day it is?

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      To be fair, that is kind of the original point of hashtagging on platforms without full-text search.

      For categorisation.

    • aleph@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      Thank you, my point exactly. And it’s literally like this every day.
      It’s weird.

    • Zaktor@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      From a brief browse, it looks like the day of the week is mostly hashtag spam, presumably for the purpose of trying to get noticed by using an easy and reliable trending hashtag. I saw one post about the Wednesday Addams TV show, but everything else was literally the day of the week. About half of the uses were in long lists of hashtags.