Why is my home feed on lemmy and kbin filled with posts about beans? Where did this recent obsession come from?
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.
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.
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.
That’s my favorite part of this site. Every time I open it I’m flooded by the shitwitching hour.
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.
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.
If I wasn’t wrinkly and old I would shut down lemmy with a naked pic holding a can of beans.
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.
Kinda irritating.
Unless it’s coffee beans. Bring those cans on in. By the pallet.
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
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.
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.
It has always bean like that. You are just noticing it now.
My app isn’t loading your link, but it better be “thinkin about them beans”
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.