Why is my home feed on lemmy and kbin filled with posts about beans? Where did this recent obsession come from?

  • @[email protected]
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    1941 year ago

    Don’t question it, just enjoy it. You are now part of the greater Lemmy world. In five years you can break out the ‘I have been on Lemmy since the bean incident’ and all the originals will sound off with you while the new lemmings won’t get the inside joke.

    You belong now.

  • @[email protected]
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    791 year ago

    I think it’s mostly, if not completely (at least on my end), coming from shitpost related communities.

    I’m seeing all of my bean posts specifically come from lemmyshitposts.

    Also random, but my city’s subreddit last year actually founded a bean club online and then had monthly IRL meet ups where they would bring bean cans to trade.

    • @[email protected]
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      291 year ago

      The Lemmy front page algorithm still isn’t very good. Which results in a lot of shit post quality posts jumping to the top of the “hot” sorting.

      • benignintervention
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        251 year ago

        That’s my favorite part of this site. Every time I open it I’m flooded by the shitwitching hour.

        • fishos
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          131 year ago

          I love it as well. It’s great to see the insanity before I switch to my subscribed feed lol. People complaining just need to learn how to manage their feed and enjoy the beans.

      • @[email protected]
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        141 year ago

        I think it’s worth mentioning for folks new here that there is no “algorithm” as people typically think of with sites like Facebook and Twitter. There are no levers or dials being adjusted behind the scenes, just upvote counts and comments pushing content to the top.

      • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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        1 year ago

        Is it that it’s not very good, or actually working as an indicator of what’s truly popular and currently generating engagement, and the people just love shitposts? 🤔

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      If I wasn’t wrinkly and old I would shut down lemmy with a naked pic holding a can of beans.

  • HeartyBeast
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    661 year ago

    There was a post on Lemmy yesterday that said something like “Lemmy will upvote anything this is just a photo of a tin of beans”. … and the shitposting started. :)

    I’m sticking with ‘subscribed’ for a while

    • Dravin
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      111 year ago

      I’ve started blocking shit posting subs. Nothing against a good shit post but it cleans up my feed without having to resort to subscribed.

      • JamesT
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        31 year ago

        How do you block subs? Is that app specific or an account feature? I used to have a good list of blocked subs in Apollo.

        • Dravin
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          41 year ago

          I’m using Liftoff but you can do it with the website too. The option shows up on the sidebar of the sub on Lemmy and on the drop down menu on Kbin (the circle with the slash).

  • Reclipse
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    551 year ago

    It has always bean like that. You are just noticing it now.

      • @Artemis
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        51 year ago

        Updated the link. Working now?

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          Wefwef is opening your link as an external webpage instead of redirecting me to the post. That’s sad since one of the first response is about porotos con riendas, that’s a delicious dish.

          • @Artemis
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            1 year ago

            Unfortunately I’m still a Lemmy noob so I’m not familiar with link formatting to remain in-instance. Hopefully that’s something that gets automated under the hood in the coming weeks!

            • @[email protected]
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              1 year ago

              No worries, noob here too, it worked eventually. I’m using a 3rd party app called Connect, and it doesn’t handle links well yet lol.

    • @[email protected]
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      -31 year ago

      That’s a little like saying the story of Noah’s Ark was the original flood myth. This meme’s bean around for a while.

  • MentalEdge
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    381 year ago

    Don’t worry. It’s just lemmy establishing its lore. Soon the bean arc will be over, like the three-day-no-poop arc before it.

  • @[email protected]
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    291 year ago

    It’s weird how different these feeds are. I only have posts about people asking about these beans posts. But no beans posts themselves whatsoever.

  • @Cracks_InTheWalls
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    261 year ago

    'Cause with all the new traffic, Lemmy’s alive and full of beans!

  • BarbecueCowboy
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    201 year ago

    Oh shit, are we having our first post-migration memestorm?

    Are we ready? Do we have an OutOfTheLoop community already out here somewhere?

  • @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    Bean related memes have been around for a bit already in other corners of the internet. We’ve been graced with more bean memes. Enjoy!

  • @[email protected]
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    181 year ago

    because we’re taking the internet back to 2003 and that includes omg teh random posts being funny again *holds up spork*

    • @[email protected]
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      151 year ago

      I’m fine with it as long as we move on quickly. The in-jokes get a chuckle out of me for a few days, and it helps build the community feeling. Now if it lingers for months, it’s gonna get real stale, but that didn’t happen with the no poop stuff so I’m hopeful.