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What's with the sudden flood of 5051 communities and instances? (lemmy.world)

submitted 21 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Can you provide a source for that? As far as I'm aware its a movement protesting Trump and Musk's purported election fraud and fascistic policies. Like almosy basically the opposite of what you're throwing out there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No. Well, I can link to the comment of the person who said they were Nazis:

https://midwest.social/post/23294043/15477656

Although, re-reading the thread, I'm no longer sure what @[email protected] was saying. It looks like he may have been saying 50501 was protesting Nazis? I probably misinterpreted them. They gave no evidence, either way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks for clarifying, probably best to double check as a practice. Misinfo abounds fr. Might be nice to edit parenr comment or at least ~ ~ cross it out to update

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Why? I didn't say that they were , only that someone in Lemmy has told me they were. I'm still not due they didn't. I explicitly said I had no idea. And I posted the link to the comment in question, so there's no doubt that they exchange actually happened.

I'm not taking a position on 50501 until I know more.