Here's the thing though: trends are a thing that only becomes useful at large volumes. They literally became a thing only an hour ago, since y'all barely use any hashtags it will take some time for actually useful trends to emerge.

@Gargron Instead of using just hashtags, maybe some kind of topical analysis on the entire toot content (ala LDA, word2vec, etc)

@dirigible That would be more useful because people don't use hashtags that often, but people would really hate that over here, so it's not an option.

@Gargron Would they hate it in the same way as we hate that gmail reads our mail and sends us ads based on it? In that case you could use the empty hashtag "#" to indicate you want your whole post indexed by latent topic. Or am I missing something.