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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does this count? Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress’ Website

  The deletions, as of August 6, are also archived here. The change was spotted by users on Lemmy, an open-source aggregation platform and forum.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We did it, Lemmy!?

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  • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The fact that they pass a referral link by default even to Lemmy is really funny.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I didn’t even notice lol

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  • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s fairly recent as well (not from the initial bubble from the Reddit exodus)

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes. Well, depends how you define viral. Even more yes if you look at the Fediverse as a whole.

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  • CCMan1701A@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…

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• thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Beans.

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  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image BEANS

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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• Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I ask because i would like to take that dipshit of Minnestoa with the daycare crap down a couple pegs.

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• sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pondering orbs was viral on Lemmy, but idk if it jumped to the rest of the world.

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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