A short intermezzo from my other work on #diaspora #sourcecode.
#societas.online pod has now a slightly improved "Popular Tags" section. It know summarizes synonyms of tags.
Eg. On a pod are many #photos, #photo and #myphotos. Another example is the use of plural forms.

Societas now allows the podmin to define lists of synonyms and its stem words.
Also tags without putting more meaning to a post ("lang_ru", "de") or other very general topics can be filtered out.

This is what the tag list in sidbar looked before:

and now:

The podmin can configure this over time with a simple UI:

What do other #podmins or #user think? Worth to continue work here? Do you like to see this on other pods? Give me a comment.

(Don't worry. Migration feature is next on my list, but Tags is a currently living feature which needed some overhaul)

Don't expect too much, a real "Trending" feature, with considers a baseline of tags and highlights trends (over just sum up) needs more work.