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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.
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.
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live is an account that hosts #HashtagGames everyday. It's quite fun activity.
There totally is -- you could toot a bunch about the stuff you want to see on the platform!
I'm doing that already.
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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