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 You assume people are constantly watching their feeds. I don't. I get a lot of value from the trending.  
 No, most people look at trending, is what I assume. Some of the clients have it really prominent.  But if trending just looks like what their feed would look like anyway.... 🤷‍♀️

Who isn't following Jack, Gigi, Lyn, Odell, Calle, and Carla, or having their content reposted ad nauseum in their feed?

The trending list seems to mostly be a condensing of our feeds, so that each post only appears once, rather than 58 times. 😂 So, that is value added. 
 As I said I will zap 500k for a better trending or onboarding algo. Ideas are good, but easy.  
 Yes, talk is cheap. We will see.
Interesting challenge. 🤔 
 I only follow 2 of those, I try not to follow funny eyes people and those with hodl in their name, I'm possibly doing Nostr wrong? 
 Also deliberately stay to the as it happens feed, that's just my preference. 
 The “what did I miss DVM” is orders of magnitude than the “globally” trending stuff.

the globally trending stuff will always be skewed to accounts with more reach which is why GM posts by accounts with tons of followers are always there even though there’s far more interesting stuff from far smaller accounts.

the globally trending stuff is recreating the same mechanisms of legacy media
 
 There's even much more interesting stuff in the big accounts, to be honest. You have to click on them and read their home feed to see the best stuff, and I do that.

But me and what army? 
 These are different things, one is personalised, the other is not. Same algo I use for global would work well if I only fed it posts by people you follow. Annoyed that accounts with big reach have nothing better to say than GM, don't look at that tab. Algo is not the problem.