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Was this a thing on the other side as well? What does it mean! Am I too old?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I had to look this up too after they started blowing up the feeds on every instance. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=r%2F196

It appears to be a popular general meme community where everyone must post something, so there's a lot of content.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh oh, I visited it and didn't post anything. I broke the rule.

In my defence, I was hopelessly confused.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Beat me to it. Was just typing up an answer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s considered a very lgbtq+ friendly community, and it announced closing entirely in the wake of the Reddit blackout, so a lot of its members have come here to Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Huh, TIL! Thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the posters stating that they're posting to obey the rule of those communities. Something along the lines of having to post an image from your device if you end up browsing there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it was also in reference to a previous subreddit that I think was named 195, that had no rules but ended up being bigoted and such. So when 196 was made, a much more progressive/leftwing version, all they technically post are rules (hence the post titles) to further clown on that previous sub

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My knowledge of reddit lore isn't deep enough to dispute that but I just wanted to say that you have an excellent username.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago