Mastodon: Feature Request: Trending Topics
It would be essential to have trending topics listings easily accessible for users.
stockermans
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Yes, would be really nice to see what topics the (mastodon) world currently cares about.
As a workaround you can follow https://mastodon.social/@TrendingBot
davidak
on 10 Apr 2017
Is trendingbot source available?
isati
on 11 Apr 2017
We don't know who runs TrendingBot it was been a great mystery of Mastodon for a long time. It pollutes the tags that are trending with its own posts and we don't know how to stop it, hehe.
in all seriousness, implementing a "trending topics" feature would be difficult to do "right." It would involve some level of tracking and datamining, which most of our users are opposed to and is antithetical to what mastodon promotes itself as. It also could only track what's trending locally if you wanted it to be any degree of accurate, as not all instances are known to any server.
It would really just depend on what you want out of it and what compromises you're willing to make.
yiskah
on 11 Apr 2017
I feel like a "Trending Locally" option would be good for an instance admin to be able to toggle on/off.
That would allow each instance to make the decision whether they were okay with that sort of data-mining.
James-Firth
on 12 Apr 2017
Duplicate of #271
Gargron
on 30 Jun 2017
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I feel like a "Trending Locally" option would be good for an instance admin to be able to toggle on/off.
That would allow each instance to make the decision whether they were okay with that sort of data-mining.