Bean shitposts becoming popular across the entire Fediverse in just an hour is a live demonstration of how effective decentralization and federation protocols are.

IverCoder@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 95 points –
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Can someone TL;DR the beans? I slept last night and woke up to Lemmy just being beans… wtf.

There was a post about a can of beans yesterday... literally just that. "Here's a can of beans"... since then, the beans have taken over 😅

I think the point of this shower thought is a good one though: despite not being centralized, the beans still spread in a very reddit-like fashion...

This is great! This is the kind of wacky behavior that generates personality, community, media coverage, interest and curiosity, As ironic as it is, I think this is a milestone for the fediverse.

It’s also the beginnings of a collective conscious which means the fediverse is inching towards a critical mass of some sort.

I’m pretty sure Reddit back in its frontier days had several wacky trends take over.

Just my opinion but I’m loving it and I think it’s a good thing,

It's a great indication when a social network gets large enough to meme. That's why people care and are actively making original content for a change. It's a great sign!

I can’t upvote your shit. Server too overloaded. Another great sign.

Here’s an up arrow to show my support.

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If lemmy.world is too overloaded you can't even vote, that's definitely a sign to create an account on a smaller instance. Best part of Lemmy is you can make an account on a different server and subscribe to all the same content