what is happening and why and does beans have a meaning
It spread to the rest of Lemmy after Hexbear federated a few years ago. Hexbear’s been beanposting since the pandemic:
https://hexbear.net/post/39003
https://hexbear.net/post/42969
https://hexbear.net/post/52408
You gotta ask Nicole about that.
Now we’re speaking of ancient evil, aren’t we?
i know who that was
its probably about that d*xxing fiasco
As I remember it (and I have a terrible memory), the fedi beans memes started pretty early on, like 2018, and came from a place of “we don’t get trending memes from other platforms so let’s start our own.” I think it came to lemmy from other fedi platforms pretty early on, and gets deployed periodically as a kind of palate cleanser. I blame the Brits, but I don’t have evidence to support that.
Yeah, it was “reddit has bacon and narwhals, we need our own thing!!”
Meaning it was completely inorganic and painfully lame. As a whole, Lemmy should all hold up a spork and call itself tEh PeNgUiN oF dOoM for being so quirky and random
“When in doubt, blame the Brits” is actually pretty solid general advice that I hadn’t considered before.

I mean, they like their beans
What’s the green goo in the middle of the tray?
Mushed peas
Yummy!
I don’t think we are to blame for the beans thing (we prefer our beans as baked beans).
As a rule of thumb though, we can be blamed for far too much stuff. You need to include the french too however. They got up to almost as much “shenanigans”.
Works great for us natives, for a couple hundred years plus now
Are the Brits a tit again
It was more like 2022
Considering Lemmy itself only came to be in 2019, i tend to believe you.
I plead terrible memory and accept this may be more accurate
I believe this was the post that started it: https://sh.itjust.works/post/715364
Beans there, done that.
In the early days of Lemmy you were only allowed to post about beans and if you strayed off topic Mothra would come get you.
Now we discuss all sorts of things, like beans.
Oh, and beans.
Despite never being a fan of guy-in-rubber-suit-trashes-miniature-city-movies, I somehow know who Mothra is.
It’s a great source of protein, and cheap.
Especially if you buy them raw and cook yourself.
And they’re great if you personally wish to be a significant methane source
Oh so that’s why my dupes couldn’t keep the methane generator running - I wasn’t feeding them beans!
They’re good for your heart.
The more you eat them, the more you fart.
It’s not really a linear relationship. It does plateau and even go down.
And anyway, bean farts are so innocent. They’re practically a feature. Toot-toot!
The more you fart the better you feel.
Same reason they say narwal and bacon on reddit.
Yep. Tge bacon naarwals at midnight
Beans and potatoes man… both are goats
I miss moths

Ancient Lemmy lore. Back when it was only beans.
First there were beans, and beans were tasty
Beans is just a Lemmy/Fediverse meme
wait be honest, does it mean nothing at all
and has no meaning
It means…
B E A N S
(yes, it has no meaning other than the word beans and the picture of Heinz beans. That’s it, you got it right)The real beans are the friends we made along the way.









