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Op did you actually post this 2 years ago??? What is going on....
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Seems the Hot algorithm chucks in the occasional ancient post.
Bug? Or feature?
Beats me!
Could it be that some deep liked that post today, and that got picked up by the hot algorithm (got a new upvote) and then snowballed over here.
Honestly I do kind of like it! It's like unearthing a time capsule lol
There's a known bug with the algorithm that causes old posts to pop up from time to time. Hope it gets fixed soon
I think I read that itβs related to old posts being copied to new instances
So someone on Lemmy.ml commented on it, causing the old thread to federate out to the instances created after it was posted?
lol I have no idea why it got popular now. Basically it was how Reddit handled this and then r/europe banned me permanently because I mentioned Lemmy. Tbh .ml wasn't the best place to join Lemmy in retrospect, I've moved to lemmy.kde.social