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[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The mods at 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone decided they didnt like the rules at Lemmy.blahaj.zone, and wanted to move to Lemmy.world.

Lemmy.world is.... We'll just say not great for lgbtqia+, especially in consideration of the "teach the controversy" rule that was coming from the admins and is "currently being reworded".

Those mods closed 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone, and tried to force everyone to .world. Thus was met with... Disagreement.

They reopened 196@Lemmy.blahaj.zone, but the damage was done, and trust was lost. !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone was created as the safe alternative from the mods who wanted the ability to allow problematic commenters.

So thats about the story there.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

God i love lemmy

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's in the name, they'll make 196 communities in total.

[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

This is the way

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

19684 is a 196 comm where sex doesn't exist.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 months ago

Literulely 19(6)84

[–] virku@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have no idea what 196 means. My attempts to google it seams to mean some sort of stream og conciousness. So does it mean post anything you like?

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Once, there was a Reddit sub called 195 that was just named after the dorm number of the roommates who founded it. It got bigger than they intended and they shut it down, so 196 was made.

The only rule of 196 is to post before you leave, which is why most of the posts say “rule”.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So we could have used 197 instead?

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

that would have been so much better than onehundredandninetysix

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

There was beef witht he 197 comm on reddit, it was just used as 196 but with laxer bigotry rules.

[–] PeaceNBullets@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Before you leave what? For the day?

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ie if a 196 post shows up, and you enter it, you’re now supposed to add a post to 196

I believe the original “rule” is relayed to a whiteboard on the dorm room door

You put something on it when you left, drew a picture, added to it.

The rule was “post before you leave”

Ie take a penny/leave a penny

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 months ago

It's a prophecy. When they reach 196 196-themed communities, 196 years of rule will begin.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not to be confused with !1960s@lemmy.world

[–] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

A sinful place

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've blocked every single one 🤷 It's just not my cup of tea and it's more noise in my feed.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I don't know what to do with this information

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago

Masturbate

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago

Keep on truckin' friendo

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Weep.

[–] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Call them a slur

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That does not seem appropriate.

[–] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Call them a type of fish perhaps?

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

I need to shop around for apps again and find one that allows you to hide communities from the feed instead of outright blocking them. Because I'd like to still visit the onehundredandninetysix community from time to time, just not have it showing up in feeds. Because especially in Blåhaj, it just overpowers everything else in the local feed, so you barely get to see the topics that the instance actually revolves around. And now there's fucking two of them.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm tempted to make a 196 piefed feed of just Lemmy communities so you can all be Spartacus.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We have a 196 now?

[–] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

We have a 196 now.

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

This episode originally aired in 1999. The N64 was still current gen hardware, google was only a year old, Bill Clinton was the US President, the first iPod was still 2 years away.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Definitely a too many cooks in the kitchen situation 🤣

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Not really, another user explained it, but 196 at blahaj and world needed to be splintered from because of the mods, and the one on pawb is sprcifically for furry memes. 19684 i think also has a specific gimmick but im not sure what it is. So none of them are really interchangeable

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Hey, that's Squidward Gary!

"......meOW."