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
We have no reason to support people who use language, and that support, to spout bigoted shit AND push their authoritarian agenda.
It’s weird how words on a public forum meant for transparency can come back to be used against you and make folks disagree, right?