Showerthoughts @lemmy.world mobley @ani.social 12 mo. ago

Lemmy bean posting could be a reddit counterattack to get people to return to reddit.

I don't know how I didn't think of this be for, but the Lemmy bean posting could be a psyop that reddit is trying to get people to return to them after switching to Lemmy

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Why would shitposting on Lemmy, get people to switch back to Reddit, a site famous for shitposting?

Beanposting seems to be a pretty organic meme rising out of the fact that Lemmy is pretty new and people don’t really mind shitposts yet because there is such good content on Lemmy since the community hasn’t grown too large yet
- "Such good content"? I see zero content for what I like.
  
  I never saw a single shitpost on the subs I followed, and their equivalents on the Fediverse are either completely empty, or having it’s own moderator post every single thread on the magazine with zero engagement from the 20 or so subscribers.
  
  "Be the change", as they say.
  
  Me either, so I started a community for a subject I'm interested in and follow on reddit and I'm populating it with new content as the news comes in so new people can catch up. Be the change you want to see. Interact with that content and post more of it. Don't just complain that it's not being fed to you.
  
  ETA: I might add that I have no intention whatsoever of moderating that community in the long term. If/when Lemmy grows, if that community picks up, I'll be looking for someone to take it over.
  
  Then you lucked out on good subs over there, and the reverse for here. It's definitely new, and definitely a different experience. Lemmy/Kbin is not for everyone - for instance in the very recent past at least it has leaned more towards technically-minded people so many of those needs are covered, and also early adopter mindsets who are comfortable to watch things grow & evolve rather than looking for an already-established setup, but depending on where YOUR particular communities of choice are, that's where you'll need to be.
  
  I would say to BE part of the change that you want to see in the world, but yeah, if it's just you and a moderator here then that's not much of a "community". Feel free to do whatever is best for you!
  
  Also remember that you can curate your experience here - like if you did not like the shitpost community, then you have to first visit it by clicking its name, and then click the "no" circle with line through it, and from then on you won't see posts from it on the main/all page. I've been doing that for all the foreign-language magazines, but people can do it for whatever - nsfw, memes, tech, shitposts, showethoughts, anything.
  
  Start following the main boards on your instance. Make the community yourself and start a topic about that subject on a general/main board and add a link to your community. The niche subs on Reddit didn’t come out of nowhere either.
Seems more like Lemmy users are building up a mythology. "I was there in the early days. Remember poop and beans?"
- Lemmy needs a Streetlamp Le Moose story right about now to really help us settled in and feel at home. If you have not heard the legendary tale, it's worth a read.
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You've been in the shower too long, friend.
- If you stay in long enough, your brain gets pruney too.
  
  Yeah, you'd end up with a wrinkly brain. Gross!
maybe we just like beans bro
- The children yearn for the beans
Imagine thinking shutposts are repulsive. They are literally only in one community, block it if you don't like it. Jesus Christ!
Doubt it. It's just dumb low effort posting over here trying to force inside jokes on Lemmy. I blocked all of that sort of stuff back in the day on Reddit, and I blocked it here too.
Damn bean counters
In what way would these bean memes make people go back to Reddit? "Go back to reddit. They don't have beans?" There are beans there too.
I'm not really into beans and shitposting, but I don't mind my feed flooded (yet) because it's always good to see people being active and having fun.
The bean shit made me feel like this place had become more comfortable as it just reminded me of shit we did on Reddit. It was funny.
I just blocked the sub. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Reddit had Narwhals and bacon, lemmy has Poop and Beans
- Truly a site of the people
- The poop beans at noon.
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Naw, I think people had fun. It might be annoying but it's a good thing. Meta humor means people are invested.
>make people like to stay on lemmy due to the maymays

>Somehow this makes them gb2 rebbit

>Profit??
I hate the "rule" shit people are throwing in post titles more than the beans
- Then block them.
- I blocked all the 'rule' communities. 197s or whatever. Fastest way is do a search and just block all the active looking ones
  
  Thanks! Wish there was an easier way to do it but that'll do for now
I was gonna post that this place becoming Reddit in the worst way, bean posting being in my mind. Hadn't considered this.

Still, an easy way to find out if this conspiracy is true is by checking who upvoted those posts.
The greedy little pig and his crownies may be dumb, but I think they would have better ways to get people to return to reddit if they wanted. Rotting a webpage using shitposts from an already rotten webpage with shitposts is not smart.
munch munch
I'll take your beans if you don't want them.
munch munch
No.
Why would you go back to reddit? There's no beans there.
So that's what people have bean doing
Beans are Lemmy's narwhal bacon midnight.
I see a bunch of people talking about the beans, but I actually have yet to see a bean post. Where are people seeing all of these posts coming from?

I have a feeling that you may have invited it yourselves by joining a bunch of meme and shitposting communities. You shouldn't really be surprised if you end up seeing a bunch of memes and shitposts.
- The bean posts have died down after around 36 hours. I've seen a few today compared to them being everywhere 24 hours ago here lol
I like beans so it's not working on me
I don’t hate the beans
Bean posting is the most reddit thing I have seen on lemmy in the month I've been watchingb
I think it's funny
Or we can bean attack them. Make an account. Go to a coordinated specified subreddit throw a bean meme/pic there. Delete account. Operation bean meme complete. That would be pretty funny.
- Oh yeah, let's increase their engagement, that will show them!
- Oh yeah, let's increase their engagement, that will show them!

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