If the fediverse is going to splinter into increasingly itty bitty communitties who spend all their time trying to decipher each other's memes I am here for it.
There were a bunch of memes going around Lemmy about a week ago on popular meme communities about beans.
Memes kind of like this for example. That and the don’t poop meme were some of the first big memes since the wave of people arrived after Reddit’s blackout.
okay now do the rule posts? Why is there like a rule that that days post must be according to a theme? and why isn't that theme consistent and where even is the theme?
I’m not sure about that exactly. 196 and similar communities started requiring the word rule in post titles because I think you were supposed to post before you leave. I think it had to do with a previous community named 195
From what I understand, there was a subreddit called r/195. The idea was there is a "rule" that when you visit the subreddit, you have to make a post. So people would post a meme with the title "rule". 196 is an offshoot of that which was created when the moderators of r/195 shut it down because they got tired of moderating it
"rule" = the original subreddit's only rule: if you visit, you have to post something before you leave. most posts are just titled "rule" as shorthand for "i'm posting this because of the rule"
where does it come from: a subreddit called /r/196, which was a successor to /r/195. i have no idea why the original was named 195. the "just post whatever" rule led to people posting all sorts of memes there. eventually it formed a community and for whatever reason the community is full of horny bisexual femboys and horny trans people who love blahaj
why are the memes so funny: it was the funniest subreddit and i genuinely have no idea why. i think it's partially because the "post anything" rule leads to a wider variety of content - you might see a recycled meme or two, but you also might see some random image someone saved to their hard drive three years ago and forgot about. variety is the spice of life and also the spice of memes
Beehaw disabled federation with https://lemmy.world/ and https://sh.itjust.works/ , two of the biggest instances just a few hours ago. Beehaw claims there were a lot of trolls coming from those communities and there is a lack of moderation tools on Lemmy to deal with them. While most of Beehaw's community is okay with this, a lot of people on both sides are upset because it means splitting the community further.
Now Beehaw can't access popular communities and other instances can't access Beehaw communities. You can read the official post about it here: https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Thank you, that is a perfect answer! Tbh, I also sort of just wanted to get a post up to jumpstart this community because I think the subreddit is one of the most useful for figuring out what's going on. Hope this gets the ball rolling!
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