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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    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.

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      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!

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

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

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

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            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

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      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