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 not exactly enforceable
I accidentally subscribed to it, and since I get a 500 error every time I try to visit it (problem with fedia.io I think) I cannot unsubscribe.
It's kind of annoying.
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
/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.
also I did not link that right idk how to link properly yet 😕
Across the fediverse if you stick an @ in front of the 196 it'll work. Lemmy has a thing where they do an ! instead, but that's specifically their thing.
Works with usernames too.
Thanks! This was the info that I needed to block them myself. First block on Lemmy.
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.
Even if they fire the mods and reopen the subreddit, the plan was to stay here. Sorry
The 196 and 195 communities have only 1 rule. If you visit the community, you must post.
There’s nothing to stop anyone from not doing it.
Yes there is. That would be against the rules. Duh.
Eh rules are made to be broken.
(and usually, use the word "rule" in the title)
Rule
196, I like that community and seen a lot of fun stuff there, but I can see how it could be too spammy for some.
Content has been slowly increasing but my first few days were 99% 196 and German posts until I blocked those communities haha
The front page is still very broken here on Lemmy and kbin. If a community is very active, it will show you nearly every post from that community. Depending on what time of day I log on, all the posts will be in German.
Das liegt bestimmt nur an deinen Spracheinstellungen. Vllt musst du da Mal angelsächsisch einstellen oder so.
Das ist doch mal eine gute Gelegenheit, eine wunderschöne neue Sprache zu lernen!
It's a sort of game.
