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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 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Beans happened a while ago

[–] hono4kami@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

IDK what voidposting is but beans I think I remember

It was kinda unfunny tbh :/

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, it definitely was

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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 months ago

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

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago

The OG Lemmy meme is shower heads.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

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

[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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 months ago

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

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 8 points 3 months ago
[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I did the same. Is it over?

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

It is never over.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months 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 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.