Yes. Well, depends how you define viral. Even more yes if you look at the Fediverse as a whole.
Has anything from the lemmy universe ever went viral before Reddit or Tictac or Insta?
Submitted 2 months ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 months ago
CCMan1701A@startrek.website 2 months ago
I think we had the fediverse girl (whatever her name was) and the guy that couldn’t poop. Off the top of my head…
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t know for certain, but can’t really imagine that being the case. There are several reasons I can’t imagine something going viral off lemmy per now:
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The combined user mass of lemmy is probably smaller than the critical mass needed to really go viral 1a. This could be “worked around” if someone reposted from lemmy to some other, larger network. Still, I wouldn’t say that meant something “went viral off lemmy”, since that would imply it went viral before being reposted.
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Lemmy doesn’t (by default) push heavily to get trending stuff into everyones feed. 2a. I say “by default” because I’m assuming someone could set up an instance designed around maximising the views of trending material.
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Slightly related to 1, but afaik, there are few, if any, very big social media personalities on here. For something to go viral, you’re basically reliant on either an algorithm catching on to your stuff and shoving it in everyone’s face or some person with a huge following shoving it in everyone’s face.
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The very system of lemmy (following communities rather than users) makes it extremely difficult for any individual user to gather a large enough following to make things go viral by posting/sharing them
Basically: Too small user mass, no big personalities, and a “following system”/visibility algorithm built around promoting interesting and healthy media consumption rather than cultish behaviour prevents things from going viral off lemmy.
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joe_archer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Beans.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
can@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Patnou@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I ask because i would like to take that dipshit of Minnestoa with the daycare crap down a couple pegs.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Pondering orbs was viral on Lemmy, but idk if it jumped to the rest of the world.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
can@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Does this count? Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress’ Website
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We did it, Lemmy!?
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The fact that they pass a referral link by default even to Lemmy is really funny.
can@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I didn’t even notice lol
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That’s fairly recent as well (not from the initial bubble from the Reddit exodus)