Anyone have stats on how the recent "voidposting" frenzy on cat communities affected lemmy? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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 37 points 3 weeks ago

Beans happened a while ago

[-] hono4kami@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

IDK what voidposting is but beans I think I remember

It was kinda unfunny tbh :/

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, it definitely was

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 24 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

The OG Lemmy meme is shower heads.

[-] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 12 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] donuts@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

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 13 points 3 weeks ago

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 10 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 9 points 3 weeks ago

[-] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

I did the same. Is it over?

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

It is never over.

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.