Don’t know what the exact cause was/is for this big surge - but I am glad to see it. No matter what personal problems people may have with the main devs, they are doing great work on the platform.
Also of interest, since this is a good place to plug things, other threadiverse things:
And I couldn’t find a way to donate to mbin, in lieu of that:
https://docs.joinmbin.org/contributing/
EDIT: The creator of mbin gave a link in the comments: https://melroy.org/donate.html
They posted asking for people to stand up for them. Dirty communists like myself (okay, and others) stood up and pushed that message everywhere we could. Because you have to want freedom and democracy. It does not come for free.
Ah, that makes sense - I missed that, but have been happily giving them a bit of money for years now. I don’t have a lot to spare, but every little bit helps with crowdfunded stuff like that.
Same here. I dont have a lot atm but I try to give what I can and also help out with work.
That joke was actually pretty funny. But what were those other posts mate? Show a little respect to the people giving you the opportunity to post here at all.