Since it’s a new community, there’s an increased effort of people spamming sending posts more than usual to try to have it gain more traction, I do expect that eventually it will calm down again once all this drama blows over.

I also think that now there’s essentially going to be two different 196s, or maybe three that are actively used because there’s going to be the people who didn’t bother leaving, the people who left, and now of course they’ve opened up another “official” channel on LW which is seeing activity.