What's with the sudden flood of 5051 communities and instances?
What's with the sudden flood of 5051 communities and instances?
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?
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."
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
What a perfect domain for this movement.
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.
That's a good point, and it aligns with the idea of the large group migrating from reddit. Thanks for that perspective.
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.
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.
"Someone on Lemmy" is probably someone who thinks anyone who doesn't use the right Marxist buzzwords is a CIA plant.
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.