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

  • Reddit_was_fun
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    2 years 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.

  • sk1nnyjeans
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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.

      • steaksandwich@lemm.ee
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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.

    • Lapus
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      2 years ago

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

        • Lapus
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          2 years ago

          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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            2 years 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?

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    2 years 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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      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@programming.dev
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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.

        • Dravin
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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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      2 years ago

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

      • andrewta
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        2 years ago

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

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

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          2 years 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@sh.itjust.works
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            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!

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              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.

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      2 years 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.

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    2 years 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.

  • omey
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    2 years ago

    it’s the kbean.social special

  • linuxFan@vlemmy.net
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    2 years ago

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

    I’ll see myself out.

  • Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years 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.

  • rookie
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    2 years ago

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

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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      2 years 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.

  • JargonWagon
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    2 years 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!

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

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