Screenshot of the trending posts section on https://felk.social, a friendly fork of the Elk Mastodon client. An open source project made available to the Mastodon + broader Fediverse community

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   Jorge Caballero, MD (datadrivenmd@fedified.com)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2023 18:50:57 JST Jorge Caballero, MD

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   2/ A couple of things about the Content Discovery panel that are work mentioning:
   - The stats used to determine what's trending are seeded using snapshots of *public* statistics made available *in aggregate* by servers that responsible for 70-80% of all fediverse activity.
   - Trending Posts are ranked according to a simple formula that credits 8 points for every "like"/"favourite", 4 per boost, -1 per reply, and a time-based penalty. This is meant to prevent dogpiling while keeping trends fresh