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Someone add trending hashtags to #rebased #hackiverse
RT: https://mastodon.tech/objects/eb90a25e-b736-4701-8ad0-4edbc5dee00e

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Thank you for that education. @alex, if you add trending hashtags to Soapbox Rebased, @realcaseyrollins will be your newest convert. He’s looking to start a new instance & we need him in our Reba...
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#rebased #hackiverse
Josh Adams ✝️
Josh Adams ✝️  
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If someone wrote sufficient tests for it I'd implement them cc @alex
@Alex Gleason
Alex Gleason
Alex Gleason  
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How would we track trends? Mastodon uses Redis and stores a key for each hashtag for each date, then sorts them. It is possible to do it only with Postgres?
Alex Gleason
Alex Gleason  
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Also, unless you give admins the ability to moderate hashtags, they'll be entirely porn based due to the high number of porn bots that spam hashtags.
Josh Adams ✝️
Josh Adams ✝️  
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How does mastodon do it?
Alex Gleason
Alex Gleason  
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Hashtags have to be approved manually by an admin. There's an admin screen that shows trendable tags that haven't been approved or rejected.
Alex Gleason
Alex Gleason  
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The algorithm is pretty basic. 3 separate people need to use a tag within a 24 hour period for it to be considered trendable.
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