Obviously, people here care about what those people have to say, but everyone follows them, already, so the trending list adds no information, and many people arriving probably don't care about what they have to say and see the trending list and assume this is just a shrine to a few personalities and a place to say incomprehensible texts full of naughty words.
Ok, construct an "onboarding" list for yesterday that you believe would work well for newcomers, that's a very needed thing that nobody solved yet.
I've created an onboarding relay "theforest", as I started with lists, but they were too static.
nostr:nprofile1qyfhwumn8ghj7mmxve3ksctfdch8qatz9uqsuamnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshszrthwden5te0vfexytnfduhsqgxqvze3lc4mkzly6wfmclzq4qyy3gjm3u8q7wpvkk6fcdalw3mvkst5kamd has the idea for rings.
It needs to be something more dynamic, at any rate, but not necessarily an algo. The ring idea is something inbetween, like a group-edited list.
Another problem I ran into with lists is that they're limited in length and unidimensional.