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
Gross, their pathetic spam worked
Ummm if you don’t think this is good news you’re definitely on the wrong platform.
Lemmy devs are awesome, Lemmy is great, and I’m happy to contribute a small donation.
Lol, absolutely not
That I can actually agree on