You know this is a relatively small instance created for Australia and Australian related things, right? And 1am where I am on the east coast is 10pm on the other side of the country, the furthest place I would’ve expected this post to spread, right?
I’ll assume you’re not a duck and don’t understand how mastodon works. The moment anyone from another instance - like me, an Australian in Australia but on a Canadian instance - subscribes to a community, that community becomes “synched” with their instance. Meaning everyone on my Canadian instance will now see this stuff on their All feed. Multiply that by who knows how many other Australians are on who knows how many other international instances, and you get comments at “1am” from people sitting on their couch browsing mastodon at 6pm.
Again, I wouldn’t have expected this to have been seen by many people outside of vic, let alone outside of Australia. There’s no need to be a dick about it, I just would not have expected it to make it outside of this instance. That is why I was surprised by the upvote count and the timeframe.
I am on a different lemmy instance altogether. I did not browse either by top>hour or anything. This just showed in the All feed in my app. Kinda like how something hit Reddit’s Frontpage, it seemed.
@kirk781@Serinus I’m not even on lemmy, the Fediverse is quite awesome and not quite as backwater as you might think, reach is an odd thing, not consistent at all but sometimes things really do go far =)
I know they’re all trying to be I Am Very Smart but damn if the sudden insistence by many people that They Should Speak And Be Heard Despite Having Zero Skin Here You Horrible Gatekeepers is really just supporting the theory skskskks
You know you don’t have to comment on every news article that exists, right? And maybe if it’s something in an area you don’t live in we don’t care about your opinion.
Sorry tiger you might want to try again. I’m Australian too. And that’s a ripper attitude, not at all insular and parochial.
My point was poking fun at these dorks trying to suggest the sudden influx of comments was some sort of global conspiracy rather than the existence of the northern hemisphere. Almost as dumb as the dorks suggesting people will now get arrested for “hailing a tram”.
Nobody was suggesting that. For the most part, people are surprised to see this make it outside of Australia. Most of the time people outside of Australia don’t care about Australian news, in the same way I don’t care about some obscure new law that’s been passed in Azerbaijan or Scotland. Nobody would expect minor Australian news to make it to all or active because 99% of things posted here are only seen by a few people on other instances. And before I realised it had done that, of course I thought it seemed fucking suspicious there were this many comments on and votes on a post here. Any sane person would.
What has been intimated is “gee. it’s awfully strange how many people suddenly have opinions about a place they normally couldn’t give four shits about as soon as we start banning nazi shit.”
Read what you like, idgaf. but when something that introduces legislation suddenly blows up with OPINIIIONS from non regs? Yeah, you’re gonna get a side eye
and yeah, maybe we don’t give a shit about your opinions on how we ban nazis. Fuck’em
What has been intimated is "gee. it’s awfully strange how many people suddenly have opinions about a place they normally couldn’t give four shits about
Right, I’m sure you have no opinion on things like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or Donald Trump, or Brexit, because you don’t live in those areas.
and yeah, maybe we don’t give a shit about your opinions on how we ban nazis. Fuck’em
Never shared my opinion on how you ban nazis. Just pointing out how it doesn’t make sense to have a Lemmy post and think somehow only Australians can read it.
But seeing as you don’t live in my area I guess I don’t give a fuck if you don’t like my opinion. That’s apparently how this works right?
Hmmm. Between 1am and 9am on a fuckin’ sunday this somehow gains an extra 39 comments
That’s not suspicious at all.
I was very confused. This had 40 upvotes within 40 minutes of posting it in the middle of the night
Edit: God damn typos
You know time zones exist right? 1am where you are is 6pm somewhere else?
You know this is a relatively small instance created for Australia and Australian related things, right? And 1am where I am on the east coast is 10pm on the other side of the country, the furthest place I would’ve expected this post to spread, right?
I’ll assume you’re not a duck and don’t understand how mastodon works. The moment anyone from another instance - like me, an Australian in Australia but on a Canadian instance - subscribes to a community, that community becomes “synched” with their instance. Meaning everyone on my Canadian instance will now see this stuff on their All feed. Multiply that by who knows how many other Australians are on who knows how many other international instances, and you get comments at “1am” from people sitting on their couch browsing mastodon at 6pm.
Again, I wouldn’t have expected this to have been seen by many people outside of vic, let alone outside of Australia. There’s no need to be a dick about it, I just would not have expected it to make it outside of this instance. That is why I was surprised by the upvote count and the timeframe.
Also some people use “Top - Last Hour”, so it doesn’t take much to get it started. Better than Reddit on that way.
I am on a different lemmy instance altogether. I did not browse either by top>hour or anything. This just showed in the All feed in my app. Kinda like how something hit Reddit’s Frontpage, it seemed.
@kirk781 @Serinus I’m not even on lemmy, the Fediverse is quite awesome and not quite as backwater as you might think, reach is an odd thing, not consistent at all but sometimes things really do go far =)
Ditto
I know they’re all trying to be I Am Very Smart but damn if the sudden insistence by many people that They Should Speak And Be Heard Despite Having Zero Skin Here You Horrible Gatekeepers is really just supporting the theory skskskks
hello from Austria.
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hi from the internet!
You know you don’t have to comment on every news article that exists, right? And maybe if it’s something in an area you don’t live in we don’t care about your opinion.
Sorry tiger you might want to try again. I’m Australian too. And that’s a ripper attitude, not at all insular and parochial.
My point was poking fun at these dorks trying to suggest the sudden influx of comments was some sort of global conspiracy rather than the existence of the northern hemisphere. Almost as dumb as the dorks suggesting people will now get arrested for “hailing a tram”.
Nobody was suggesting that. For the most part, people are surprised to see this make it outside of Australia. Most of the time people outside of Australia don’t care about Australian news, in the same way I don’t care about some obscure new law that’s been passed in Azerbaijan or Scotland. Nobody would expect minor Australian news to make it to all or active because 99% of things posted here are only seen by a few people on other instances. And before I realised it had done that, of course I thought it seemed fucking suspicious there were this many comments on and votes on a post here. Any sane person would.
Nobody? There’s multiple comments specifically calling it sus
Yes there are, but who suggested it’s a “global conspiracy”?
What would they be implying otherwise?
Post on the internet where the entire world can see it.
This guy: “DON’T READ THIS! THIS ISN’T FOR YOU!”
yeah nah mate literally no one is saying that.
What has been intimated is “gee. it’s awfully strange how many people suddenly have opinions about a place they normally couldn’t give four shits about as soon as we start banning nazi shit.”
Read what you like, idgaf. but when something that introduces legislation suddenly blows up with OPINIIIONS from non regs? Yeah, you’re gonna get a side eye
and yeah, maybe we don’t give a shit about your opinions on how we ban nazis. Fuck’em
Right, I’m sure you have no opinion on things like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or Donald Trump, or Brexit, because you don’t live in those areas.
Never shared my opinion on how you ban nazis. Just pointing out how it doesn’t make sense to have a Lemmy post and think somehow only Australians can read it.
But seeing as you don’t live in my area I guess I don’t give a fuck if you don’t like my opinion. That’s apparently how this works right?
…yeah you keep going to that well. Hyperbole isn’t serving you the way you think it is.
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