I don’t know what everyone means when they use ‘rule’ in the title and at this point I’m too afraid to ask. Please enlighten me.
That’s because the “rule” of !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone is to “post before you leave”… That creates a lot of random posts that all have some kind of “rule” in the title. Sometimes these posts get popular and you see them in your feed.
For the curious, the original was actually /r/195 on Reddit. It started as a joke between some college roommates, in dorm room number 195. Then it eventually got popular as a sort of shitposting community. But the original 195 was basically unmoderated (because it was just a couple of dudes in college who started it for shiggles,) and was eventually brigaded and taken over by alt-right neonazis. The memes quickly devolved into straight up Nazi propaganda.
So 196 was created as a sort of “new” 195, and that original brigade and subsequent takeover is why a lot of the 196 memes tend to lean hard left. The 196 sub was sort of a rebellion against the 195 takeover, which means that conservative stuff quickly got shut down. It eventually became a sort of safe space for transgender memes as a result. From there it became a sort of self-sustaining reaction where trans people saw it as safe so more trans people gravitated towards it.
Thank you for the detailed explanation! I remember seeing it on reddit, but never knew why.
It’s always seemed so wholesome to me how the trans folks are such a huge part of what makes that sub awesome but also it’s not a “trans sub”, so you get all these people there for the memes also experiencing fully normalized transness
I’m pretty sure neo-Nazis weren’t the reason r/195 shut down. It was just that after 420 weeks the owners decided to end “the experiment”.
I wasn’t on Reddit then though, so I wouldn’t know.
Curious where you got your take if you weren’t even on reddit? I never heard any of this before, was it, like, in the news or something?
I was on r/196, and that’s what the people from r/195 were saying
The respective person wasn’t on reddit then, likely was after, just in time to read the archives.
Hey there you could’ve taken two seconds to read my profile and seen I have my pronouns listed there instead of just misgendering me
No, I really couldn’t have. My attention span is too short. I apologize, if it makes you feel better. However, I can make no promises on any future mislabelings, to you, anyone or anything else. My attention span is too short for that.
Fun fact, very few people indeed will respond negatively to “they” as a default pronoun for when one is uncertain.
to have a dorm room 195 seems implausible. it implies at least 95 rooms on one floor
Or building 1, section/floor 9, room 5. I’m in an apartment that has four digits, but that doesn’t mean there are over 1000 apartments in the complex. It simply means they follow a standard numbering scheme to make finding the specific apartments easier.
Interesting. Number schema come in many colors. I use 20240315 format to prefix dated files
In the Netherlands I saw some building were, instead of having a street number-flat number, the building had all the numbers listed on them. So, if the building had 100 houses, the street number for the building would be 150-249, and the next street number would be 250.
It’s possible they had a similar system.
What if I visit the community/magazine without posting? How do they know?
The incident will be reported at /var/log/auth.log
sudo exitsudo -k
But then it’d be obvious the community is just used as a miscellaneous memes & 💩posts community and isn’t actually a place you go, browse, and post before logging off!
Doesn’t matter either way but it is a clever bit of engagement bait / encouragement for new posters.
!q:
Straight to hell. To the boiler room of hell. All the way down.
B.A.N.N.E.D.
No, they don’t know buddy, ha. It’s meant to be a non-serious rule for a non-serious community.
B-a-n-a-n-a-s
I remember how to spell bananas from Kelly singing “this day is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s”
Santa puts you on the naughty list.
Is it really worth the risk?
The man knows. The man knows everything about you. They’re always watching.
We actually made INGSOC from 1984 do it for us, we’re very evil that way.
I’m pretty sure I was banned from that community for 3 days for commenting then leaving without making a post of my own.
But I’m not sure if they ban someone for silently visiting then leaving without posting.
I can’t find you in the Modlog for any actions but maybe I’m missing something, if you feel something happened feel free to email the mod team.
Huh okay, it must be a vague memory I was conflating with something else.
Maybe, I just wanted to see if you were and why, so maybe there was a chance on resolving it or not. Take care!
Isn’t it a rule to have rule in the title as well?
It’s not, but it’s become sort of a de-facto tradition to cite the fact that you are posting because of the rule by adding the word “rule” cleverly (or, sometimes, not-so-cleverly) to the title
It is actually in the rules now
If you’re talking about Lemmy’s 196, it’s not a rule and never was for us. “Post before you leave” is a “rule” but titling it rule is not. It’s just an injoke.
It actually was, in one of the stickied posts. Looks like it’s been replaced though.
This is why I had to block them from my home feed. Way too many random posts that, because of the nature of the “rule”, aren’t very interesting.
Every Rule post, including this one, provides clues to the nature of the underlying RULE. Once somebody actually figures out what the RULE actually is, it is posited that the fediverse will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-“Oh no, not again”
Thought the petunias.
Douglas Adams strikes again.
Time to go down to the Grampy Store and get you your official belt onion.
As was the style at the time.
rule? Did I do it right?Yes. You did great.
“I’m afraid to ask” is such a werid thing to say on the internet. Nobody knows you. Just ask.
Why does it hurt when I pee?
Either an STD or you’re doing it wrong.
Well I always wrap a string around it so I can aim, but I’ve never seen anyone else carrying their string around.
Most people store it in their face like a hamster
OH! That makes sense now! I’d always wonder why I see these guys with a big bump underneath their lip. They spit all the time too and it smells really bad. Maybe they should wash their strings more often.
The other day, I saw a woman doing it! First time ever. I was so surprised, she passes very well.
Could be dehydration or kidney dysfunction.
Oh god, you probably got the gonocacococcus
But he did ask, which is why it’s even stupider.
someone can be afraid to do something and still do it
Yes they can, but the use of ‘too afraid to ask’ implies they won’t or can’t do it.
Yeah, language is rarely that literal, deal with it.
I’m dealing with it fine, I just said it’s stupid. You don’t seem to be dealing too well though so perhaps you should look inward at your ability to ‘deal with it’.
Lol. No you.
You’re a little bitch
It wasn’t actually a question, just a statement about a lack of knowledge.
How do you know what Chris Pratt was … reads username ah. Carry on then.
It’s just paraphrasing the quote from the show…
Just what were you touching that you ran out of touches? You need to see a doctor. Here, see a doctor:
Seen.
🤣🤣
rule
You don’t know what “rule” means? Ah, you’re a fucking meat circus mate.
Now all these f*ing zoomers are telling me that I’m out of touch!?
Oh yea? Well, your fucking phones are poisoning your minds, ok?
So when you develop a dissociative mental disorder in your late 20s don’t come crawling back to me.
don’t come crawling back to m- I’m turning 30.
Go crawl wherever you want, just not on my lawn!
it’s 2020 and i’m thirty, i’ll do another ten. then in 2030 i’ll be forty and kill myself then.
They won’t. They’ll post about it in one of their 30 online communities discussing it. Memes, medications, and moodswings.
They’re quoting a song from Bo Burnham’s “outside” special.
Deep cromulence.
It’s the rule on !196 that your title must include the word
It’s not a rule for us, just an injoke. The “rule” is post before you leave, not “every post must have rule”. We also can’t/don’t ban people for not posting before you leave. We literally don’t have that power at all, so we can’t use it.
A rule that you have to have a certain word in a title or comment? That’s the silliest idea I’ve ever heard. Main.
how fleek.
The rule is you have to post something before you leave
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But… you are asking right now.
