I like @gargron's explanation of where trending hashtags can be useful. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7702#issuecomment-394019250
That GitHub thread is also super tiresome to read. I had the same question as somebody else: “How does abuse via trending tag work? If someone wanted to use a trending tag to abuse someone, how would they go about that?” The answer given was “Multiple examples of the potential for abuse have been raised in this thread and elsewhere.” Unfortunately I only saw statements asserting that it was possible, not examples of how to do it. Does anybody have links?
@kensanata I read the thread too and I agree with you, it seems a contrived point. But personally I don't want trends on my instance. So I hope the user will have the option to disable it.
