#MastoAdmin folks who weren't around the #Fediverse and #Mastodon back in 2018 may not know (or those who were, may have forgotten) how unpopular trending tags were when the project leader forced it despite extensive criticism about creating abuse vectors and clawing back promises of creating an algorithm-free network.

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Popular or trending hashtags · Issue #271 · mastodon/mastodon

I think it would be cool to be able to see some of the most popular hashtags of the last 24 hours. It could fit nicely at the top of the "public" panel.

^GitHub