The thing i said in the title

  • Noodles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    it’s a trend from the community 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone idk why it’s spreading other than that is a very quickly growing community

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      1 year ago

      The rule in 196 is that once you’ve visited, you must post before leaving. Thus, the title suffix “rule”.

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      1 year ago

      first community i’ve blocked here since making my account. god, that spam, ugh…

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      1 year ago

      /r/196 was a popular sub on Reddit, about 500k subscribers. A lot of them were dedicated users who were very active and had recognizable usernames.

      196 was one of the first major subs to shut down and point everyone to the fediverse. It helps that 196 was very LGBTQ-friendly and Blahaj.zone is also very explicitly LGBTQ-friendly, so it was a good match.

      196 creates a lot of content because their “rule” was anytime you visited the sub you had to leave an image, whether it was a repost or not. This also works very well for a nascent fediverse where not a lot of OC is being made yet.

      Thus 196 was pretty much in the perfect position to become one of the biggest places on the fediverse.

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        1 year ago

        I think they’re still down? Not sure, can’t check any more. They were my favorite subreddit, so I’ve been submitting a few posts to the community here also.

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        1 year ago

        Across the fediverse if you stick an @ in front of the 196 it’ll work. Lemmy has a thing where they do an ! instead, but that’s specifically their thing.

        Works with usernames too.