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 [email protected] 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.
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?
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.
What if I visit the community/magazine without posting? How do they know?
The incident will be reported at /var/log/auth.log
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.
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.
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
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.
“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?
Oh god, you probably got the gonocacococcus
They got it from the toilet seat
But he did ask, which is why it’s even stupider.
someone can be afraid to do something and still do it
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.
