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Laurelai Bailey @Laurelai

if you have federation wide trending tags you create incentives for people to game that system to force a tag into trending status, it can and it will happen, which will cause whatever posts they are gaming to gain visibility. Its a way to spread propaganda, lies, illegal content and other malicious postings.

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@Laurelai but it would be fun if the top hashtag was always #gay because you know, all the fediverse is :so_gay: D:

@DarckCrystale @Laurelai I honestly feel like the hashtag-bots filled this slot quite well.

@maloki @DarckCrystale gargamels proposed change will just mean 4chan psychos will overrun tags all day long

@Laurelai @maloki but maybe instance admins could ban people glitching the tool/cheating?

@DarckCrystale @maloki As many instances as there are they could do it for days at a time

@Laurelai Yeah I definitely agree here.

I did suggest on github that admins should at least be able to turn it off on their server (to not get this noise).

And I don't see that any harassment concerns etc. are being addressed as it is right now.

@DarckCrystale

@maloki @DarckCrystale Will turning it off do any good when every instance is indexing you too? They can still direct harassment at you, you just wont see it coming then

@Laurelai That's true. Yeah, I dunno.

have you added any of this feedback on the github?

@DarckCrystale

@Laurelai @maloki @DarckCrystale Yeah. Like Alda explained to me, Fediverse-wide trending topics will be fun until some people make, for example, "UserXIsATranny". And then, there will be nothing we will be able to do to prevent the person to have a giant target on their head.

@Sylvhem @maloki @DarckCrystale Or even worse force "UserXFullDox" into trending

@maloki @Laurelai my instance don't have the trend thing for now so I can't tell what it looks like in practice :<

@Laurelai That's even worst than that. Since they can't be deleted from the trending, unlike Twitter, you can use them as an harassment engine and nobody could do anything.

@Laurelai I already saw that happen (far from my home TL but whatever), on the "for the fun" side.