Is anyone else enjoying the slower pace of content?
Is anyone else enjoying the slower pace of content?
I had been feeling a bit drawn in to reddit for the past few months before the divorce. I feel like the slower pace at which content comes out on Lemmy is good for me in that way. I can't just scroll and scroll and scroll my entire day away.
Does anyone else feel similar?
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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.
what is 195/196? I see them pop up sometimes but that name conveyed nothing to me in terms of what they're actually about
go there and read the community/subreddit rules
I did
The Lemmy equivalent of r/196 on Reddit. Not officially affiliated (yet).
then over on reddit
Rules
if you visit this subreddit, you must post before you leave.
it's just a meme sub? where does the number come from?
195 was a sub created by a group of school friends to share memes. Basically a big group chat. The name 195 was choosen because it would've been hard to randomly stumble upon it. 195 was shutdown when it got too big and the friend group didn't want to moderate it. 196 was originally created as a continuation of 195. That's the story I've always heard.
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.