Chris Messina: It certainly means someone could build one, Technorati-style (e.g. third party apps could index tags and provide access to trending feeds).

Hashtags coming to Bluesky — from @jay.bsky.team herself! 🤩

Hashtags on Blueskyyoutu.be Watch the entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5RjCH0nLj8

does this foretell the eventual addition of a trending tab?

I suspect that they will probably still favor custom feeds over hashtags / hashtag feeds. I wonder instead if there would be a good way for them to surface a "trending" equivalent for feeds - which feeds have had the most growth in usage (posts, saves, likes) over the last x number of hours.

It certainly means someone could build one, Technorati-style (e.g. third party apps could index tags and provide access to trending feeds).

Oh definitely. @nowbreezing.ntw.app , for example, does a trending word thing already. Wouldn't be hard to do that for hashtags - probably even exists already somewhere.

I've actually included @nowbreezing.ntw.app into my app @skeetsapp.com for iOS / iPad OS because I found it super useful. Skeets already supports hashtags. When clicking on one it triggers a full term search on the meta tag. It also lets you add hashtags when composing a post.

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Interesting, are you scraping trending words from @nowbreezing.ntw.app? 👀

Yes! Of course, I’ve asked @nickwrightdata.ntw.app for permission to do so.

To be clear, a trending hashtag cloud is a new feature that's already up and running on @nowbreezing.ntw.app! Tracking currently-popular feeds is definitely a good idea I'll look into.

Here's the Top 10 Trending Words over the Past 10 Minutes: ️⚠️🌀2 - valentine's ️⚠️🌀1 - valentines ️⚠️🌀1 - おはよう 4th - valentine 5th - katie 6th - 花粉 7th - tightpussy 8th - 出勤 9th - parade 10th - roses (tap/click to see all posts with that word!) #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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