Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Servers show trending posts based on what server members boost, and what the accounts they follow boost. A single-member server may not have enough data to show trending posts.
However, help is at hand! If you're on a server without trends, you can follow a Hypebot account which boosts trending posts from selected other servers. For example this one is popular:
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️ @hypebot@tldr.nettime.org
Combined with Mastodon's new fetch-all-replies feature, all servers can participate in trending discussions.
#FediTips
Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
p.s. This isn't the only hypebot, you can search for others and they have different lists of servers that they boost trending posts from.
Also, if you're a techy person you can set up your own hypebot which you can customise to your own liking: https://codeberg.org/tante/hypebot