cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22298719
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Honestly i just had to block /cats. It was 95% of the front page
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2024
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How dare you!
That explains why I had no idea what this post was referring to. Apparently that community is already blocked.
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Is it like a coordinated effort to drown out politics, whats the angle here?
After the US election, it's needed anyways. We could probably all use a short break from politics
I unfollowed every meme community because it was wall to wall whingeing about Trump.
It's about time someone changed the subject.
Ive blocked Trump and Musk from my feeds. But they still get through somehow sometimes.
I just want a break dammit!
Well......what if you imagined them having a leaked sex tape? Just squishing their bits into each other, until they're a sticky moankng gooey mess! Put THAT mental image in your mind!
.......yeah, I've mentally checked out long ago, and no longer am trying to maintain sanity. Frank Reynolds is right. Lets just get REAL WEIRD with our final days....
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Ugh, same. It really doesn't help that most of the time people seem to refuse to actually describe their image. We need "TW: Musk/Trump" to become standard for easy blocking
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I don't think it was coordinated.
It feels like someone shared a photo, others felt inspired to share, and it snowballed since then
Snowballed is the wrong word. Collapsed into a black hole seems more appropriate, considering the subject matter.
Alright, I'm hype, but it is a lot of cat photos.
I'll take it. Cute cats are very cute. I've been missing my daily dose since the API debacle.
The void cometh
I don't know, but if that's the case, I'm fine with it.
I'd have to read the 500th depressing story about trump, whom I can't do anything about.....
......or I can see a cute kitty.
BRING FORTH THE KITTYS INTO THE FEED PLEASE!!!!
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Come check it out, or add to the cat photo avalanche
I was holding off, but fine. It's your fault I'm contributing!
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I swear I've only seen meta posts talking about all the cats. I haven't seen a single non-meta cat post.
Update (2024-11-23T01:52Z): It turns out that, to see the cats, one must sort by "Hot" [1]. I was sorting by "All" + "Active", but, to see the cats, I must sort "All" + "Hot".
References
- @OpenStars@piefed.social. ""Lemmy right now" | Cat photos flood the feed". FediLore + Fedidrama (fediverselore@lemmy.ca). sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. https://sh.itjust.works/post/28447496/15193503.
[...] Active prioritizes many comments iirc, but on most of these posts I see few if any comments. Using Hot though, they can dominate a feed due to being highly upvoted.
You might have federation issues (or blocked the right/wrong people/communities/instances).
There are loads of cats....
Perhaps SJW is having federation issues. Anything related to personal blocks would be extremely unlikely, in my case.
The only cats I gave seen so far in my feed are maybe 3 from !cat@lemmy.world.
Update (2024-11-23T00:44Z): It appears that SJW is fine. See my comment here for more details.
You, like every other non-Lemmy.World instance right now, seem to be having massive federation issues, since if you view the community at the source there are a flood of cat pics, which SJW seems to know nothing about.
ShitJustWorks is probably the issue, I don't see it either
Edit: no idea what replies mean I still hardly understand this platform lol
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on the one hand, it's annoying having so many photos of somebody's cat(s) flooding your feed
On the other, after months of election dread and with at least four more years of misery for everyone who isn't rich lying ahead of us -- sure, bring on the cat photos. Good palate cleanser.
Prefer the pic of my brothers kitten then other post about Trump.
Let the cats flow
The biggest scandal on Lemmy.
Absolutely love it!
cat JUMPSCARE
That's not a jumpscare... this is a jumpscare!
This sounds made up but I swear to god as I started reading your comment and saw his face the radio station in the waiting room started playing that same song. I’m convinced you summoned rick astley
Not a cat person but I want more void pics!!!
Cat raid 🐱🐱🐱
ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
The best Lemmy has ever been. The Internet exists for two reasons: Cat picd/videos snd porn. And we got the porn covered too.
Cat
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cat.
Cat.
I did notice an uptick in specifically black cats. And I was kind of surprised to see it just came from !cat!cat@lemmy.world Normally when you get a high volume of one highly specific kind of content, it's because a new community has been opened somewhere and the community creator and/or small group of early users are outright spamming it to populate it because communities that sit empty will inevitably remain empty. Of course what they're doing is bombing the All feed to the point that people who might actually go "Oh hey there's a black cat sub, I'll subscribe to that" will block it because it's the entire fediverse for 50 hours if they don't.
I have seen this phenomenon back on Reddit, where everyone just started posting pictures of their cat to pay the "cat tax" because it was a simple bandwagon to jump onto. It's everyone post their cat day. "Hey, I've got a black cat too. I want to play. My turn!" I just can't be mad at that because it's wholesome social fun but...it's a problem with Lemmy itself that when a community has any kind of spike in traffic it just B-52's everyone's All feed for days.
Why would I block it, it's black cats. They're all quality posts, entirely by virtue of being cats.
Fuck, I put up with beans for almost a week, cats are fine
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I'm allergic, did anyone bring antihistamines
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