• Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      2 years 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.

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          12
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          2 years ago

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

          • kirk781@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            8
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            2 years ago

            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.

        • Taleya@aussie.zone
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          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