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What are the criteria for trending communities?
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I think it was set up to prorate by community age. And not a lot of communities are being made.
A year ago a lot of people just spam replicated every Reddit sub, and Lemmy doesn't have the user base to support that many communities.
So now a new sub with 1 person subscribing shows up as "trending".
They can probably easily tweak it to require X posts/comments/subscribers to show up there.
FTFY