The thing i said in the title
There are a lot of communities across the fediverse based off of r/196, where the only rule is that you have to post something before leaving. I ended up blocking most of those communities because of the spam.
Surprised I’m not banned from there, Ive commented on posts from those communitues multiple times before and never once posted
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
The rule in 196 is that once you’ve visited, you must post before leaving. Thus, the title suffix “rule”.
(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.
I once visited that sub (to block it) and didn’t post when I left. Faced no consequences believe it or not.
first community i’ve blocked here since making my account. god, that spam, ugh…
/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.
The 196 and 195 communities have only 1 rule. If you visit the community, you must post.
I personally blocked those communities. They just took up too much of my feed with low quality content.
I’m thinking of doing the same. I’ll wait to see if it calms down after the wave of users from Reddit.
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