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?
They’re establishing communities here because reddit (where the community mostly started) can censor or ban their community at any moment. The fediverse offers a lot more protection from censorship.
Seeing the censorship of redditors who mention Luigi, or wish anything bad on MAGA people, it makes a lot of sense not to be overly reliant on reddit when organizing protests.
I was banned for “showing extreme indifference” when that really funny thing happened to the health care CEO
You mean when Luigi Mangione, a folk hero, ALLEGEDLY shot a capitalist mass murderer in the back?
No way he’d ever do such a thing. I know a guy who said they saw him at a party in Pittsburgh at the time of the shooting.
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.
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.
Can you provide a source for that? As far as I’m aware its a movement protesting Trump and Musk’s purported election fraud and fascistic policies. Like almosy basically the opposite of what you’re throwing out there
No. Well, I can link to the comment of the person who said they were Nazis:
https://midwest.social/post/23294043/15477656
Although, re-reading the thread, I’m no longer sure what @chakravanti@monero.town was saying. It looks like he may have been saying 50501 was protesting Nazis? I probably misinterpreted them. They gave no evidence, either way.
Thanks for clarifying, probably best to double check as a practice. Misinfo abounds fr. Might be nice to edit parenr comment or at least ~ ~ cross it out to update
