It was also supposed to only apply if you explicitly went to the subreddit. If you just saw a post in your feed you didn’t have to make a post yourself.
But the rule makes the community very very active in a place where there’s otherwise not much activity.
/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.
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.
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.
it’s a trend from the community [email protected] idk why it’s spreading other than that is a very quickly growing community
The rule in 196 is that once you’ve visited, you must post before leaving. Thus, the title suffix “rule”.
I’d like to see them make me. Fuck them and their “rule”
got a real badass over here lol
But I can make you lose the game.
(Psst… a lot of people broke the rule.)
It was also supposed to only apply if you explicitly went to the subreddit. If you just saw a post in your feed you didn’t have to make a post yourself.
But the rule makes the community very very active in a place where there’s otherwise not much activity.
It’s just for fun buddy
I once visited that sub (to block it) and didn’t post when I left. Faced no consequences believe it or not.
That’s what you think
first community i’ve blocked here since making my account. god, that spam, ugh…
Same. 196 was giving me cringe headaches.
It’s got one good meme for every 10 shit ones, so every time I’m about to block it I reconsider
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Actual zombie
/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.
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.
Yes, they are still in restricted (read-only) mode and redirecting here.
also I did not link that right idk how to link properly yet 😕
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.
Thanks! This was the info that I needed to block them myself. First block on Lemmy.