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Why is my home feed on lemmy and kbin filled with posts about beans? Where did this recent obsession come from?

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[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

The Lemmy front page algorithm still isn't very good. Which results in a lot of shit post quality posts jumping to the top of the "hot" sorting.

[-] benignintervention@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

That's my favorite part of this site. Every time I open it I'm flooded by the shitwitching hour.

[-] fishos@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

I love it as well. It's great to see the insanity before I switch to my subscribed feed lol. People complaining just need to learn how to manage their feed and enjoy the beans.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

When life gives you beans, you make toots.

[-] Toxinflora@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

toots? like in the mastodon?

[-] eldnikpw@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I think this is similar to how reddit sorted before r/The_Donald memed its frontpage. It'll probably settle down as people are still figuring things out but for now, I just temporarily block !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world and !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone so I can view other posts.

[-] steaksandwich@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I think it’s worth mentioning for folks new here that there is no “algorithm” as people typically think of with sites like Facebook and Twitter. There are no levers or dials being adjusted behind the scenes, just upvote counts and comments pushing content to the top.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is it that it's not very good, or actually working as an indicator of what's truly popular and currently generating engagement, and the people just love shitposts? 🤔

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