- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22298719
Image credit in original post :)
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on the one hand, it’s annoying having so many photos of somebody’s cat(s) flooding your feed
On the other, after months of election dread and with at least four more years of misery for everyone who isn’t rich lying ahead of us – sure, bring on the cat photos. Good palate cleanser.
Prefer the pic of my brothers kitten then other post about Trump.
The best Lemmy has ever been. The Internet exists for two reasons: Cat picd/videos snd porn. And we got the porn covered too.
cat JUMPSCARE
That’s not a jumpscare… this is a jumpscare!
This sounds made up but I swear to god as I started reading your comment and saw his face the radio station in the waiting room started playing that same song. I’m convinced you summoned rick astley
Not a cat person but I want more void pics!!!
Void is a stupid thing to call a cat. Like come on guys be original there are other ways of saying “nothing” and centuries worth of racist ways to say black.
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
thought it was clear that was sarcasm. Left out the /s thinking “I can’t just say black without knowing where this would obviously be headed”
smh shoulda known
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Cat.
cat.
Cat raid 🐱🐱🐱
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The biggest scandal on Lemmy.
I swear I’ve only seen meta posts talking about all the cats. I haven’t seen a single non-meta cat post.
Update (2024-11-23T01:52Z): It turns out that, to see the cats, one must sort by “Hot” [1]. I was sorting by “All” + “Active”, but, to see the cats, I must sort “All” + “Hot”.
References
- @[email protected]. ““Lemmy right now” | Cat photos flood the feed”. FediLore + Fedidrama ([email protected]). sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. https://sh.itjust.works/post/28447496/15193503.
[…] Active prioritizes many comments iirc, but on most of these posts I see few if any comments. Using Hot though, they can dominate a feed due to being highly upvoted.
Same, and I usually just browse TopDay.
Never mind, hadn’t scrolled down far enough, now they’re coming through.
You might have federation issues (or blocked the right/wrong people/communities/instances).
There are loads of cats…
Perhaps SJW is having federation issues. Anything related to personal blocks would be extremely unlikely, in my case.
The only cats I gave seen so far in my feed are maybe 3 from [email protected].
Update (2024-11-23T00:44Z): It appears that SJW is fine. See my comment here for more details.
You, like every other non-Lemmy.World instance right now, seem to be having massive federation issues, since if you view the community at the source there are a flood of cat pics, which SJW seems to know nothing about.
ShitJustWorks is probably the issue, I don’t see it either
Edit: no idea what replies mean I still hardly understand this platform lolIt doesn’t appear to be [1]:
References
- “kersploosh” (@kersploosh:matrix.org), “InEnduringGrowStrong”. (@inenduringgrowstrong:matrix.org). “sh.itjust.works” (#sh.itjust.works:matrix.org). Matrix. Published: 2024-11-23T00:15:07.821Z, 2024-11-23T00:22:27.456Z, 2024-11-23T00:23:57.470Z, 2024-11-23T00:29:28.242Z. Accessed: 2024-11-23T00:39Z. https://matrix.to/#/!ftaqqnpOePvPwZBnaO:matrix.org/$Ey8AdebItcTNeiPddiDMeX_xaWV0FpVWnehuSAwebc8?via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de&via=envs.net, https://matrix.to/#/!ftaqqnpOePvPwZBnaO:matrix.org/$8LS3rYZin7BS8hXYvvZowJ35RO4zWC_VUOKqm28Md-Q?via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de&via=envs.net, https://matrix.to/#/!ftaqqnpOePvPwZBnaO:matrix.org/$X_KQdsnxsuxZTBaR8WR3ivq93nvx_DIBRGuhGavYgw8?via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de&via=envs.net, https://matrix.to/#/!ftaqqnpOePvPwZBnaO:matrix.org/$Ab_RtHk6bl-XFQvP6U8Ba_yrDrd5a9KEGiU7HBQBrgU?via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de&via=envs.net.
It’s not the only one. Aussie.zone, being geographically far away from Lemmy.World, has suffered greatly for like six months already. And even my prior instance Discuss.Online that was so on the ball seems to have fallen prey eventually - unless that was just a gap during its upgrade to 0.19.7.
e.g. here’s a post with ~185 upvotes, though when viewed from Lemmy.world it shows 192 up and 2 down, so 190 total, but the real trick is that when viewed from discuss.online it has only 97 upvotes - that’s almost half of them they got lost!?!?!? And that’s nothing: check out the post when viewed from StarTrek.website, with zero additional upvotes (beyond the default first one) and also no comments visible on it as well.
As we see there it is not just votes - it is also comments, and as we are discussing here about cats, while entire posts too (although sometimes those catch up, whenever someone votes or comments on it later on and that triggers the entire post to have another chance to federate to an instance that would have skipped it otherwise). This level of lack of proper federation is enough to have killed off Lemmy entirely imho, even if that process took several months, if it weren’t for the fact that a fix has already been deployed and we are all just waiting for Lemmy.World to upgrade to it on 0.19.6 or its follow-up bugfix 0.19.7.
It’s not the only one.
See my comment.
Yeah it looks fixed now. I went to [email protected] and counted 10 posts from the last 3 hours, then viewed the community from SJW and it too has 10 posts from the last 3 hours.
So… are you enjoying the cats flooding your feed now?:-D Or if you aren’t seeing them, it must be for some other reason now.
we’re currently aware of delayed federation from lemmy.ml towards lemmy.world and still working identifying the root cause - see https://lemmy.world/post/22196027 (still needs updating that it’s happening again).
aussie.zone has been about 6 weeks behind lemmy.world for a few weeks i think at this point, which at least means they’re no longer losing activities, but it’s still taking ages to reduce the lag.
i don’t know what issue there might be with discuss.online right now, but for startrek.website the explanation is rather simple. as you can see in the sidebar, there are 0 local subscribers for the community. when there aren’t any subscribers to a community on an instance, the instance will not receive any updates for posts in that community. this includes posts, comments, as well as votes.
startrek.website also had federation issues over the last weeks due to accidentally blocking lemmy instances in some situations.
lemdro.id has recently had some db performance issues that caused it to get around 3d behind lemmy.world, they’ve been slowly catching up again over the last days.
Thanks for the info! If discuss.online was out for a few hours, would that explain the missing content, if it happened during the outage and so it just gets lost forever, or given enough time will it catch up?
Do you know when Lemmy.World plans to update to 0.19.6 or 0.19.7? I really hope that helps bring stability! Although I can understand not wanting to do it at the same time as the sync issue with lemmy.ml still happening.
It could also be the type of sorting you are using. I was seeing lots of cats, and my settings are
- scaled sort
- subscribed feed
I usually alternate between subscribed+scaled, and all+active. In both I see pretty much nothing.
- @[email protected]. ““Lemmy right now” | Cat photos flood the feed”. FediLore + Fedidrama ([email protected]). sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. https://sh.itjust.works/post/28447496/15193503.
Honestly i just had to block /cats. It was 95% of the front page
Same
How dare you!
That explains why I had no idea what this post was referring to. Apparently that community is already blocked.
Come check it out, or add to the cat photo avalanche
Thanks for the shortcut for the community for me to block! ('till after 6 years (2 years after the next USian vote), another USA Dem lost, another extension)
I was holding off, but fine. It’s your fault I’m contributing!
Is it like a coordinated effort to drown out politics, whats the angle here?
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After the US election, it’s needed anyways. We could probably all use a short break from politics
I unfollowed every meme community because it was wall to wall whingeing about Trump.
It’s about time someone changed the subject.
I think politics play a very large role in life and that ignorance of it gives us outcomes like Trump, but I would like to hear more about what the motivation for the cats is if that’s also on the table.
Wanting to be able to exist in a social space online without 3/4ths of all discussion in that space being bleak political news isn’t the same thing as ignorance.
I posted about voting, I engage with political discussion, but lemmy is a very politics heavy platform, and while there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with that, you kinda have to manage your fatigue levels. You can only be but so upset, outraged and exhausted before it starts to affect you, and being burnt out and overwhelmed doesn’t yield productive political action
You gotta take breaks and balance paying attention with stuff that makes life feel worthwhile. If you don’t, eventually you just give up. Cats for a little while is kinda nice :)
Also worthwhile noting that not everybody on the English speaking internet is American ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It doesn’t matter how much trump is forced down my throat, it doesn’t change shit because I live on the other side of the world. A little bit of awareness and courtesy every once in a while wouldn’t go astray.
If you’re only getting your news from lemmy posts you’ve got bigger problems than you think.
No no. Ignorance is not the same as stupidity. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge. Stupidity is the inability to use knowledge.
Every single day since 2016 we’ve had trump in our daily conversations. Every single day we’ve heard every stupid thing he’s done. Every tiny little thing he’s ever said. If news outlets had access to his toilet time, they’d play nightly audio of his poops. There is not a single thing about him that hasn’t been said 1000 times. No piece of information about him that isn’t out there.
And he doesn’t keep himself secret either. He stood onstage and said into a microphone, with cameras rolling, in front of thousands of people, with pride in his voice as he said it, that he would be responsible for the largest mass deportation innititive this country has ever seen. He said if he was elected we wouldn’t have to ever vote again. He said he would use the united states military if needed to “put down” the enemy within.
These are not the words of a man hiding facism. He put it on full display for over a year, and the votes came back that we as a collective country WANT that.
The information is out there in public. Reported on ad nauseam on a nightly basis for over a year.
Trump is not the result of ignorance. Trump is the result of weaponized stupidity.
You have a very cool philosophy and I thank you for sharing, but the definition of ignorance is not the same as unaware. To be ignorant generally implies to ignore the reality or truth.
American Heritage Dictionary has this to say about it:
Ignorance:
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The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.
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The condition of being ignorant; the lack of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.
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A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have.
I’d normally also include something like Oxford Dictionary definition but for some reason they’ve got a paid subscription model now.
It does list “the condition of being […] unaware” in the definitions you quoted. I think it’s fair to say ignorance can mean being unaware, but ignorance can at times also signify that it is intentional, or that a person is choosing to ignore information.
Though saying “ignorance is the lack of knowledge” stands true, regardless of whether that lack of knowledge is intentional or not.
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Ive blocked Trump and Musk from my feeds. But they still get through somehow sometimes.
I just want a break dammit!
Ugh, same. It really doesn’t help that most of the time people seem to refuse to actually describe their image. We need “TW: Musk/Trump” to become standard for easy blocking
Well…what if you imagined them having a leaked sex tape? Just squishing their bits into each other, until they’re a sticky moankng gooey mess! Put THAT mental image in your mind!
…yeah, I’ve mentally checked out long ago, and no longer am trying to maintain sanity. Frank Reynolds is right. Lets just get REAL WEIRD with our final days…
Why does musk look SO MUCH like princess leia??? Ahhhh!!!
…yeah, I’ve mentally checked out long ago, and no longer am trying to maintain sanity. Frank Reynolds is right. Lets just get REAL WEIRD with our final days…
That’s weird. That paragraph is the only part of your comment i can see.
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.
Alright, I’m hype, but it is a lot of cat photos.
I’ll take it. Cute cats are very cute. I’ve been missing my daily dose since the API debacle.
I don’t know, but if that’s the case, I’m fine with it.
I’d have to read the 500th depressing story about trump, whom I can’t do anything about…
…or I can see a cute kitty.
BRING FORTH THE KITTYS INTO THE FEED PLEASE!!!
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The void cometh
I did notice an uptick in specifically black cats. And I was kind of surprised to see it just came from !cat[email protected] 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
God, you put up with beans for a week? By the second hour i was blocking anyone that posted them or mentioned them
Absolutely love it!
