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 @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. 3 comments
@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? |
Gregory's Server
@hughster
the crazy thing is that my server's trending section is actually more populated than your typical small server, because of said data scraping. none of those tags are actually trending on my server; i pulled in the data to try to provide a fuller experience for my users.
imo, it's a rather difficult balance to provide, between running your own themed server yet feeling connected with the larger sphere.
i don't know how to address, it is basically a side effect of being decentralized, but i've tried.
@hughster
the crazy thing is that my server's trending section is actually more populated than your typical small server, because of said data scraping. none of those tags are actually trending on my server; i pulled in the data to try to provide a fuller experience for my users.
imo, it's a rather difficult balance to provide, between running your own themed server yet feeling connected with the larger sphere.