Honestly i just had to block /cats. It was 95% of the front page
Same
That explains why I had no idea what this post was referring to. Apparently that community is already blocked.
And the problem is?..
Is it like a coordinated effort to drown out politics, whats the angle here?
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.
cat JUMPSCARE
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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My aunt when she was a kid named her black cat Nothing.
So when her dad, who didn’t like cats in the house, asked what that sound was from her room she would say ’oh that was nothing’.
This story gets trotted out every holiday.
yeah guys why don’t we just call our cats the hard r, that’s much better
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