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In the early 2000s there were a couple of different forums I liked, so once a day I’d walk over to the library to use the internet and catch up. I’ve missed having that kind of healthy relationship with the internet, haha.
Because of the slow nature of content I ended up being subscribed to more communities than I would have back at Reddit. My feed is still 99% 196 just like in Reddit, but instead of needing to pop into r/all or r/popular every few hours, the New Comments sort ends up "sprinkling" interesting stuff from other communities into my feed.
I know I'm late to the party but is there any chance you can explain 196 to me?
There once was a r/195 which I'm late to the party for but was apparently just a dumping ground of memes by a bunch of students who all lived in dorm room 195 (or something along those lines) so when it shut down people who wanted to keep something like that going decided to set up r/196
The only rule (technically there were a few more such as no NFT avatars, or that one specific person could post porn if censored correctly) was that you had to post something before you left if you opened the sub. So it became a weird meme dumping ground, and because the mods weren't assholes it ended up being a pretty nice space for left leaning folk and gender minorities.
No clue why posts are just titled "rule". I assume it started out as people simply not having a title in mind when posting, and then just kinda stuck.
Maybe because the rule is you have to post something before you close it? I dunno. Thanks for the explanation. There's some wild stuff in there.
It's probably not going to last.
It's ok
To be perfectly honest, no :(
Reddit is just so incredibly massive, there's always something new and interesting to find in /r/all
I hope one day that lemmy can achieve such reach.
I do appreciate it but I also notice that a lot of content is not getting moderated resulting in low quality posts/spam.
Yeah, that happens. As more mod tools come out I'm sure that will get better with time.
No, I'm missing out on critical news. If this isn't fixed I'll go back to reddit.
Everyone, do your part to submit one newsworthy event per day.
Slower? Have you not seen all the beans? Maybe that’s just my feed.
I'm making a bean filter
I had posted this a few days before the reddit API change, it was a lot slower then. I kinda miss it TBH...
It’s good because I feel like I can actually participate without getting lost in the shuffle.
Sort of yes?
It certainly gives me a lot more time for reading rather than social media which is probably a good thing.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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