• hankskyjames777@thebrainbin.org
      1·
      1 month ago

      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)

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 month ago

        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.

        • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          1 month ago

          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 :)

          • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
            4·
            1 month ago

            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.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 month ago

          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.

          • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 month ago

            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:

            • The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.

            • 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.

            • 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.

            • philthi@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 month ago

              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.

              • philthi@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 month ago

                Though saying “ignorance is the lack of knowledge” stands true, regardless of whether that lack of knowledge is intentional or not.

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      18·
      1 month ago

      I don’t think it was coordinated.

      It feels like someone shared a photo, others felt inspired to share, and it snowballed since then

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 month ago

      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!!!

      • Aksamit@slrpnk.net
        4·
        1 month ago

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  • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    1 month ago

    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
    1. @OpenStars@piefed.social. ““Lemmy right now” | Cat photos flood the feed”. FediLore + Fedidrama (fediverselore@lemmy.ca). 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.

    • groet@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      You might have federation issues (or blocked the right/wrong people/communities/instances).

      There are loads of cats…

      • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        1 month ago

        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 !cat@lemmy.world.

        Update (2024-11-23T00:44Z): It appears that SJW is fine. See my comment here for more details.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          1 month ago

          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.

        • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          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
  • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

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

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    I did notice an uptick in specifically black cats. And I was kind of surprised to see it just came from !cat!cat@lemmy.world 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.

  • somebodysomewhere@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • Shortstack@reddthat.com
      5·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • somebodysomewhere@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        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