With so many people migrating over to the fediverse recently, will there be an eternal september 2?

I've had a great time on Lemmy since I joined over 2y ago. But well, can't keep all the fun to ourselves, right? :) Now this place is all yours too. Welcome aboard!

I've never heard of the term eternal september until now, that's pretty neat. Makes me wonder what 1980s usenet groups/conversations looked like. I wonder if DOS or other OS's at the time had a navigable interface for it

Currently everyone is talking about reddit here, which really exposes why the recent wave of people is here. Prior to this it was mostly leftist shitposting mixed with general fediverse discussion. I think the Mastodon side of the fediverse likely experienced something similar in October last year, but I can't really speak to the culture before that because that's the wave that I came over in.

I will say that even though there's a lot of reddit spam right now, this amount of content and discussion is still way more entertaining than it was before. And Lemmygrad is still hanging out in their own little corner. It's just bigger than that now.

i hope so

Wouldn't this be like the 1000th eternal september? It happens all the time.