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

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[–] [email protected] 190 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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] 30 points 1 year ago

This is the best way to describe it and I'm 100% here for it

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I’m glad I’ve bean here from the start.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Yup or if you really got in early-ish you can say I was there for the poop challenge.

It's been a wild ride so far.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I think this is similar to how reddit sorted before r/The_Donald memed its frontpage. It'll probably settle down as people are still figuring things out but for now, I just temporarily block [email protected] and [email protected] so I can view other posts.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am! I just applied for my first principal job and I would hate my wrinkled ass with a can of beans kept me from it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the school doesn't want an administrator who whole-heartedly participated in a niche meme of a nascent retaliatory federation, is that really a school you want to be a part of?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So you'll do it after you get the job. Makes sense. Good luck!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You should do that anyway😜

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I love meme archeologists

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My app isn't loading your link, but it better be "thinkin about them beans"

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Competing with Reddit's lore

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After 17 seasons, the Reddit lore was getting stale and uninteresting. Lemmy lore is new hotness. Season premiere only just came out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well at least Reddit's lore ended with a supervillain, I suppose.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

it's the kbean.social special

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You federated wrong. You're actually on Legume-ey.world

I'll see myself out.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Luckily I'm on kbean.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So the need for a c/outoftheloop begins

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It exists already.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 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] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe for the people who just migrated after the API shutdown. We all already held our poop for 3 days a few weeks back.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why am I not getting beans :(

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen a single bean-related post. Perhaps you have not been minding your "block-all-memes" mandate. I hate memes and shitposts and block communities and posters that break through at every opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i unsubbed from shitpost temporarily lol

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