Gregory's Serverwell said. the dynamics certainly change based on your instance! i do data scraping on rap.social, to make the trending section more reflective of the great masto-sphere, but even that is a lil controversial.
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 @greymatter Yeah, I think this is the unfortunate downside of the model that, at least in terms of replicating a single discussion space, the architecture naturally rewards larger, more general-purpose servers as they have more active users bringing in a wider variety of different posts and user data from different places for the servers to "know about".  @hughster @greymatter ah so “trending” is only what is trending on your own instance, not on mastodon as a whole? |
@greymatter I've just had a look at the Trending Posts feed on your instance and I see what you mean–5 items. I'd not looked at the feed on a small instance before and didn't realise it'd be quite so thin, but I suppose it makes sense due to it being based on what people are boosting/sharing on the server.
Looks like your local and federated feeds are at least navigable to compensate for it, though, and it feels a lot more like a community than my server does.