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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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.

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

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

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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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This is the best part. Reddit had nice moments like this, back in the day. Now get off my lawn!

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This is how I feel about it - excited to be part of my first inside joke on Lemmy! I have found my people!

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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.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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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 !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world and !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone so I can view other posts.

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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? 🤔

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12 points

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

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14 points

Do it, you coward

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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.

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6 points

You should do that anyway😜

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4 points

Shitposts and Rule are dominating right now

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3 points

That’s the SFW internet for you…

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4 points

Kinda irritating.

Unless it’s coffee beans. Bring those cans on in. By the pallet.

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2 points

Make a meme. “How about our beans with caffeine?”

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1 point

Go cards

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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

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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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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.

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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).

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52 points

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

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I feel like you’re gas lighting me, I can’t be certain.

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Just the right amount of gas, don’t want to over do it

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It started here

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I love meme archeologists

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8 points

My app isn’t loading your link, but it better be “thinkin about them beans”

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4 points

Updated the link. Working now?

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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.

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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.

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