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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 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 56 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

For those who, like me, don't know what 5051 is, it is an american protest movement against corruption "50 protests. 50 states. 1 movement."

https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago

What a perfect domain for this movement.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

They're establishing communities here because reddit (where the community mostly started) can censor or ban their community at any moment. The fediverse offers a lot more protection from censorship.

Seeing the censorship of redditors who mention Luigi, or wish anything bad on MAGA people, it makes a lot of sense not to be overly reliant on reddit when organizing protests.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 17 hours ago

They’re establishing communities here because reddit (where the community mostly started) can censor or ban their community at any moment. The fediverse offers a lot more protection from censorship.

And yet...no icon for us!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I was banned for “showing extreme indifference” when that really funny thing happened to the health care CEO

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

You mean when someone iced the fuck out of Bryan tomson? That was hilarious as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

You mean when Luigi Mangione, a folk hero, ALLEGEDLY shot a capitalist mass murderer in the back?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 19 hours ago

No way he’d ever do such a thing. I know a guy who said they saw him at a party in Pittsburgh at the time of the shooting.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

When Luigi Mangione ALLEGEDLY did a good deed for the benefit of all of society, you mean?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

It blows my mind how when the cops needed a fallguy for the crime they grabbed an extremely attractove man who's also educated and intelligent.

As if we were going to go against someone like that. lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

There's also a community that mirrors posts and comments from Reddit, so it looks like a lot is happening here while it's actually all happening on Reddit.

https://50501.chat/c/Mirror

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago

it is a nationwide movement with at least tens of thousands of people across literally every state organizing political action, and it's only growing, so... here they are.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Someone on Lemmy said they're a thinly disguised front for neoliberals, or libertarians, or something. I didn't look into it.

It seems to be more than a flash in the pan, though, so I should probably figure out what they're about.

Edit see below, they weren't claiming 50501 were associated with Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

"Someone on Lemmy" is probably someone who thinks anyone who doesn't use the right Marxist buzzwords is a CIA plant.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, I am only peripherally curious about them, so I haven't yet done any legwork to see who's behind it and what the values are.

I'm quite pragmatic about politics: I'd work with just about anyone to bring income disparity down, to fix problems with our version of capitalism, to address the Police Problem. Anyone who agrees we need to overhaul the election system in the US, and bring in proportional representation, RCV, eliminate the electoral college? I'd share a table with them on those efforts.

However, I feel as if joining a movement requires a bit of a deeper dive, as sympathetic issues can mask undesirable long term objectives. I don't trust my gut instinct on these things.

[–] [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 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 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 5 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.