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[–] cedarmesa 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems the Hot algorithm chucks in the occasional ancient post.

[–] Cruxifux 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] LazaroFilm 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] dingus 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly I do kind of like it! It's like unearthing a time capsule lol

[–] Contramuffin 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a known bug with the algorithm that causes old posts to pop up from time to time. Hope it gets fixed soon

[–] Carnelian 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I read that it’s related to old posts being copied to new instances

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So someone on Lemmy.ml commented on it, causing the old thread to federate out to the instances created after it was posted?