what are your thoughts on the various 'trending' features in Mastodon?
(for example, trending hashtags on Mastodon versions older than 3.5.0 and on 3.5.0, we also have trending posts and trending URLs if instance has trends enabled)
this is a open ended question, not a poll so feel free to reply with as little or as much as you like
@packetcat i miss stumbleupon and think mastodon is lacking good ways of discovering interesting web pages appreciated by people in your community but i think trends are a really half-baked way of bringing that about
most significantly because they can't disambiguate “i’m sharing this because i like it” and “i’m sharing this because i hate it”
@packetcat back in my day, the web was full of pages, and idle surfing was an actual way people would pass the time…… instead of doomscrolling social media