I'm pretty sure it started on Lemmy.world but I wish I saved (/had a better way to search for) the starting post :(

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[+] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    The biggest catposting incident on lemmy was when people started "void posting" in cat community on lemmy.world.

    Black cat images made it to the top of /all for several days. Here's the list of those images (lemmy search with cat community and with keyword "void"):

    https://lemmy.world/search?q=void&type=Posts&listingType=All&communityId=29&page=1&sort=Old

    They don't have as many upvotes but a year-two back lemmy didn't have as much activity as now. Still made it to /all

    Edit: edited query to sort by "old" to get the oldest ones first

    Edit2: sorry, got stuck looking at the voidposts and realized the biggest incident was 7 months ago, so need to scroll a bit down with that query but you should also see the voidpost memes :)

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don't know why I didn't do this myself but thank you!🤗

    This is very appreciated, I needed this🌻🙌

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Glad you found what you were looking for and happy to help! :)

    I think it started in the cat community and spread elsewhere, but couldn't come up with a better query, sorry :( enjoy the voids!

    Edit: and also some people have deleted their original accounts with all of their posts, so could be that we are missing the true numbers of voidcatposting incident

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I miss the time when Fediusers posted just orbs for a good while

    I'm pretty sure it started on Lemmy.world but I wish I saved (/had a better way to search for) the starting post :(

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    At least they're not posting beans.

    ........I never got that. Was that a linux thing?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    No, it was originally an August 2023 shitpost that was like "y'all upvote anything so here's a can of beans". That spurred the first wave of bean memes, and it has subsequently been trending every few months or so.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I liked the day where everyone just decided to post all their voids and just kinda took over the feed.

    That was a really nice day :)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I swear I missed this somehow.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It was good times.

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