• Beacon@fedia.io
    418·
    1 month ago

    Honestly i just had to block /cats. It was 95% of the front page

    • hankskyjames777@thebrainbin.org
      11·
      1 month ago

      Thanks for the shortcut for the community for me to block! ('till after 6 years (2 years after the next USian vote), another USA Dem lost, another extension)

  • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    1 month ago

    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
    1. @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.

    • groet@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      You might have federation issues (or blocked the right/wrong people/communities/instances).

      There are loads of cats…

      • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        1 month ago

        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.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          1 month ago

          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.

        • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          It could also be the type of sorting you are using. I was seeing lots of cats, and my settings are

          • scaled sort
          • subscribed feed
  • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
    121·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    1 month ago

    The best Lemmy has ever been. The Internet exists for two reasons: Cat picd/videos snd porn. And we got the porn covered too.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    62·
    1 month ago

    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.