Indeed the up and down voting is basically a way to crowd-source the curation that other platforms try to do algorithmically. It doesn’t work that well on Lemmy due to the lack of users and resulting easy vote brigading, but at least theoretically it could serve a similar role.
P.S.: cats & anime would be also leading topics on Twitter if they would not artificially shape the trending topics towards “news”.
Mastodon have fedareted trending hashtag system, it’s not exactly what you’re looking for but its pretty close.
goldfish.social
Oh God I hope not!
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Indeed the up and down voting is basically a way to crowd-source the curation that other platforms try to do algorithmically. It doesn’t work that well on Lemmy due to the lack of users and resulting easy vote brigading, but at least theoretically it could serve a similar role.
P.S.: cats & anime would be also leading topics on Twitter if they would not artificially shape the trending topics towards “news”.