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Honestly i just had to block /cats. It was 95% of the front page

Is it like a coordinated effort to drown out politics, whats the angle here?

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Come check it out, or add to the cat photo avalanche

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".

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.

Let the cats flow

The biggest scandal on Lemmy.

Absolutely love it!

Cat raid 🐱🐱🐱

Not a cat person but I want more void pics!!!

The best Lemmy has ever been. The Internet exists for two reasons: Cat picd/videos snd porn. And we got the porn covered too.

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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.