Anyone have stats on how the recent "voidposting" frenzy on cat communities affected lemmy?
from 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works to fediverse@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 13:08
https://sh.itjust.works/post/28600281

Has there been a major spike in user registrations or any other metric? I’ve never seen something “go viral” like this on lemmy before.

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Blaze@feddit.org on 25 Nov 13:11 next collapse

Beans happened a while ago

hono4kami@pawb.social on 06 Dec 04:11 collapse

IDK what voidposting is but beans I think I remember

It was kinda unfunny tbh :/

Blaze@feddit.org on 06 Dec 10:32 collapse

Oh, it definitely was

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 25 Nov 13:22 next collapse

Beans, star trek, beams, off the top of my head. There’s been others. It happens a lot.

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 25 Nov 14:21 next collapse

The OG Lemmy meme is shower heads.

9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works on 25 Nov 14:40 next collapse

I’m relatively new to lemmy, so i guess i missed all the other events

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 25 Nov 14:45 next collapse

There will be more, don’t worry. We enjoy the silliness.

asudox@discuss.tchncs.de on 25 Nov 15:05 next collapse

Welcome. We also have something like r/place here: canvas.fediverse.events

Cris_Color@lemmy.world on 26 Nov 01:34 collapse

I’m relatively new too, but welcome! We’re happy to have you ☺️

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de on 25 Nov 16:18 collapse

Let’s not forget voluntary constipation, the first topic I remember really consuming the site.

donuts@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 13:34 next collapse

I’ve never seen something “go viral” like this on lemmy before.

I think they are just trends that start becoming popular because people are bored. At least, that’s how it can start.

I imagine for every user that’s like “that’s cool!”, there’s another user who’s like “alright time to avoid Lemmy for a while”, so perhaps there is not much to glean from the metrics.

Am interested in any data too though, if it’s there

teft@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 13:35 next collapse

Yeah, i love cats and /c/cats but i had to block them for a few days just to see something other than voids.

Sometimes lemmy can just be silly.

9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works on 25 Nov 14:39 next collapse

Personally, i loved voidfest. I spent more time on lemmy to catch them all!

TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Nov 16:01 collapse

I did the same. Is it over?

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz on 25 Nov 18:45 collapse

It is never over.

Sabata11792@ani.social on 25 Nov 20:07 collapse

Stupid things going viral for no reason like that just seems like a healthy platform.

realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club on 25 Nov 14:34 next collapse

I didn’t know that even happened. Must’ve occurred in the void.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net on 25 Nov 20:11 next collapse

I’m just seeing them go viral on Lemmy. If they were going viral outside of Lemmy, too, that might cause an uptick in user registrations. Hell, some of the previous meme fads weren’t even new to Lemmy. Beans aren’t new or exclusive to Lemmy. Neither was pondering the orb, nor are the voids.

IronKrill@lemmy.ca on 25 Nov 21:24 collapse

Couldn’t say, but it did cause me to unfollow the cat community I was following because my feed was unbrowseable outside of void cats.