p.p.s. I've just done a guide all about how to deal with scams and scammers on the Fediverse at:️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-avoid-scammers-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverseI've tried to cover all the known scams and questions people have about dealing with them. If I'm missing anything from this please let me know.

@FediTips amigaaaaaa

@pabloniusmonk It's basically the most boosted recent posts, and only one post per account is visible (to prevent popular accounts flooding the trends). Admins can optionally pre-emptively moderate trends to prevent nasty stuff trending on their instance.The exact formula is in the source code but it's fairly simple and open. If I recall correctly it's updated fairly often, but there can be a delay due to moderation.Each instance has its own independent set of trends.

@mottenfest Ah sorry about that.For what it's worth, this method was originally meant to be much simpler. Mastodon didn't invent it, it was originally a wider open technical standard where if people just linked to their profiles on different services, the links would show they were the same person.Unfortunately Meta, Google, Twitter etc refused to co-operate, so it ended up mainly being for accounts on Mastodon that also have a website.

p.s. I've added another method of discovering PeerTube videos to the article, follow this account:️ @FediVideo I manually choose videos to share on the FediVideo account, making it the easiest possible way to discover nice videos and accounts from PeerTube.Just follow the account to see nice handpicked PeerTube videos in your timeline, then if you see something you like click on the video's username and follow the video's own account.

@johngaskell DAT is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dat_(software)Gemini is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)Gopher is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)IPFS is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_SystemSSB is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_ScuttlebuttI think DWEB relates to decentralised web projects.

@askDNA Yeah, it is a bit overlooked considering how useful it is! Perhaps they need to give it a different name or make it more visible or something?