• BakuOP
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    1 year ago

    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?

    • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          Also some people use “Top - Last Hour”, so it doesn’t take much to get it started. Better than Reddit on that way.

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            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.

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          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