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how does trending work on Mastodon does anybody know
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@sun Possibly a count of hashtags in the search every 15 minutes or so?
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@arcana I wonder if it has any anti abuse mechanism
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@sun I thought it's just a count of specific tags

You can go to a mastodon instance and search up a tag, it shows how many posts made with that tag within the day.
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@sun @arcana mods/admins have to approve a hashtag before it can trend

there is a queue for trend suggestions to be approved, it gets populated i think once a hashtag gets used 10 times within 24 hours (don't quote me on this i can't recall exactly what the metric is)
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Damn that's gay
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@sun @arcana looks like the current params are 5 times within 2 days, there is also a score and a half-life, so it decays every 4 hours https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/models/trends/tags.rb

it gets put on the review queue at 3 uses and gets shown to users after 5 uses and an approval
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@sun return is_leftist_politics ? true : false
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