Why is lemmy so bad at determining trending communities?

Trending: adjective

  1. emerging as a popular trend: trending fashion accessories.
  2. widely mentioned or discussed on the internet, especially on social media websites: trending topics on Twitter.

Over the months, I’ve come to the realization that the trending communities section is absolutely useless. Whatever algorithm is used, it doesn’t have anything to do with the community being new, active or changing in participation. Literally, the same empty 0-post communities will sit in that block without change, aside from rarely one 0-post community will get bumped by another 0-post community.

Will there ever come a time where the trending section will provide trending communities or is what’s shown actually intended?

otter,

Oh I just assumed they were the newest communities, is that not the case?

schwim,
@schwim@reddthat.com avatar

It’s not. I’ve had some of the same empty communities for more than a month in that block.

thorbot,

Because it’s entirely running by lemmings

Okay I’ll leave

paddirn,

I usually browse by ‘Top Six Hours’, but I’ll see some weird communities pop up every other day or so, just a string of posts all from one community, like one after the other, then by the next day I’ll never see them ever again. Sometimes it’s some random obscure hobby/interest, sometimes it’s country-specific but in a different language. The foreign language ones I always block (no offense, but if I can’t read it, it’s useless to me). I’ve tried setting my language preference to English, but it never seems to do any good.

naught,

Same! Then when I run out of content it’s top 1 hour… then new – the wild west

Blaze,
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I usually use !trendingcommunities , much more reliable

LackingC10H12N2O,
@LackingC10H12N2O@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, I’ve noticed that as well. :(

I wonder if those communities get put in Trending so they get visibility in the hopes of more users joining them?

backhdlp,
@backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

in the hopes of more users joining them

It certainly works on me

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