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196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

perishthethought @piefed.social

1d ago

Don't know why rule

But really, why?

5 comments

There was an old subreddit called 195, apparently it was the street number of a home of a bunch of friends who all knew eachother and moderated/populated a subreddit together. This subreddit eventually ended after it grew a lot, had a bunch of good vibes, and was a good time.
Someone made 196, the successor to 195, with mostly the same vibes, but was a subreddit in the meandering kind of way, as most subreddits are
With the move off of reddit, people made 196 as a stand-in for "queer friendly good quality shitposting community", and a few of them exists/existed, and this is one of them
- and this is one of them
  This particular one exists after the mods of 196 caused drama by moving instances without discussing it with the community.
Great comment from another post: https://lemmy.world/comment/18747138
- TL;DR: An inside joke from stoners that shared an apartment made 195, named after their apartment building. Shutdown after 420 weeks on Reddit. 196 is a continuation of their legacy.
Tradition from old chat group, turned subreddit, turned lemmy community