I guess that this 50501 movement has somehow gained some recent popularity from somewhere, but the sheer volume of content, communities, and even instances seems weird.

Where did this all come from and why did it seem to come as a sudden flood?

  • ryathal
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    6 hours ago

    Discovery sucks in the fediverse, so it causes a lot of fractured and spammed content until hopefully everyone migrates to a stable community. Otherwise everyone eventually leaves as there appears to be no interest in a topic due to the fragmentation.

    • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 hours ago

      That’s a good point, and it aligns with the idea of the large group migrating from reddit. Thanks for that perspective.