Gregory's Serverthe 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.
@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".