Flicking through the front page and around half of all posts have the world “rule” in the title. What’s that about?

  • @_MusicJunkie@beehaw.org
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    146 months ago

    The 196 community has a rule saying you have to post something - anything - if you visit them. So folks post something to fulfill that rule, and over time it evolved from “here’s my random post because of the rule” or something into just tiling it “rule”.

    • @barkingspiders
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      66 months ago

      I’ve been here for months and never understood what was going on there, thanks for answering!

  • AFK BRB Chocolate
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    6 months ago

    Because you haven’t blocked the communities that have the single rule that you have to post something if you visit them. I think there’s two of them, and when I sorted by all/new they were about all I saw for a while so I blocked them and life has been better.

    • @wsweg@lemmy.world
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      56 months ago

      You don’t only see Star Trek and Linux communities? I had to block a large portion of those

      • AFK BRB Chocolate
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        16 months ago

        I blocked a lot of meme communities. I kept shit post, but there were some that were just nonstop posts that saturated my feed

  • BarqsHasBite
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    126 months ago

    The 196 community says all posts must have “rule” in the title.

  • @numbermess@beehaw.org
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    86 months ago

    I have had the same experience and question. I don’t know why there is so much of it, but have found that blocking any community that is named or references “196” seems to take care of it.

    I decided that I was never really going to devote the time to get in on the joke and there was way too much of it anyway.

    • @Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
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      96 months ago

      There really isn’t a joke to get, it’s just a silly community, so if you weren’t enjoying the posts you’re not missing out. I hope you can rest easy now, friend.