Please tell me what problems trending tags solve
#meta
If I'm interested in a topic I search for a tag.
If I'm interested in what people are talking about I go to the public timeline.
The only purpose for trends for me is "I want many followers and free exposure please so I use # many # useless # tags # to # get # views"
Please, @Gargron , think if it is what we need.
Any form of rating or trends works against federation.
One more reason to be on m.s. would be to get better trends.
Do we want this? Is it worth it?
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the bird guy
@charlag It seems rather useless to me unless instances share their data so that you can get a view of what is trending across all instances that your instance knows about.
@minego @charlag @ink_slinger worth noting that federation relays are on the roadmap for 2.5, so... yeah
@ink_slinger @minego @charlag the idea for federation relays right now is that instances can optionally subscribe to other instances, meaning they would become aware of their posts without having to follow every single user there.
(Sorry that I didn't CW all of this)