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.
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
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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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.
Ditto
@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